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If
$ were no object, would you like to be cryogenically frozen to (like Ted Williams is
alleged to have done) to be awaken in the future when they had a cure to reverse the aging
process? Sure.
Fisch, 47
Preston, CT
USA
Sure, what the hell. The usual complaints I
hear about this are (a) all your friends would be dead and (b) how would you adjust to all
the changes? (a) Make new friends. (b) Why do people automatically assume that the sure
won't be found for centuries? It could be found the day after, or the day before and they
just couldn't get it to you in time.
Alias Irrelevante
I don't know. I don't think humans were
meant to be immortal. I would like to have an endless amount of time with my husband, but
I'm only 22. It's hard to say how I'm going to feel about aging when I'm older. Ever see
that movie, Forever Young or whatever? That was sad! I'd hate to think anything like that
could happen. . .
Karen, 22
Ames, IA
USA
Ii don't think so. I'm all for slowing the
aging process, but I don't want to live forever. On the other hand, if I were suffering
from an incurable disease which doctors thought they could cure within a few years, I
might be tempted. The thought, however, of the people I love having grown and
changed during that period, while I was in a stasis, tells me that coming back would not
be to the same world and would not be comfortable at all. There's a Robert Heinlein book that says it better.
Jane, 62
West Linn, OR
USA
No. THats about all i have to say :P
Talia, 25
Stamford, CT
USA
I don't think so. In the first place I have
my doubts that it will ever work. Also, I believe God has something to say about what
happens to us after death. I'm not sure he'd approve.
Judy, 62
Easton, KS
USA
No. Seems like a waste of time and energy
for what is now a remote possibility. However, I would not object to my DNA being saved.
Felicia, 36
Lowell, MA
USA
No
Christopher, 28
San Mateo, CA
USA
no way - i couldn't even think about coming
back - all my family and friends would be dead - i wouldn't know anyone.
Brad, 21
Sydney AUSTRALIA
No. One life is enough for me.
Jill, 61
Saylorsburg, PA USA
Not a chance. Reanimation is a thing of
science fiction. I don't believe the process will ever work.
Doug2, 29
Overland Park, KS USA
I don't think so. When it's my time, it's my
time.
Nicci, 27
Las Vegas, NV
USA
This
whole question is fundamentally wrong. First of all, Ted Williams did not choose to be
cryogenically frozen; that was a decision made by his son, who likes publicity and makes a
living off his dad's name. Secondly, the words "cure" and "reverse" do
not go together - you can have a "cure for old age" or a "procedure to
reverse the aging process" but the phrase stated in the question makes no sense. In
addition to this, reversing the aging process would be pointless: we'd have a world of
infants. Having a cure for cancer might be something to freeze yourself for, but dying of
old age is a good way to go. And finally, if the human body were to survive the cryogenic
suspension (which experts believe is unlikely, given that the corpse's blood is replaced
with an equivalent of antifreeze and tissues are damaged while frozen), the culture shock of waking up in the distant future is more than most
people are prepared to handle. People who sell the opportunity to be frozen are swindlers.
I would definitely not go for that.
etoile, 21
Washington, DC USA
No.
KarenNJ, 25
Milltown, NJ
USA
As much as I enjoy the cold, I would have to
say no. Even if they can reverse the aging process, will they know how to reverse the
freezing process?
Ryan, 29
Morton, IL
USA
Absolutely not!! I read they can't unfreeze
you anyway because human tissue doesn't work the same when it's unfrozen. No thank you!
Tracy, 24
Ocean City, NJ USA
No, I dont think I would opt for this. Why
would I want to be "reawakened" 100, 200 or so years from now when
everyone I love and know are gone? I would be a stranger in a strange land...plus, what
about the religous complications? I truelly believe that there is a heaven and that is
where I will be after I die...so, if they reawaken me, will my soul be forcefully pulled
from heaven to reinhabit my body, or will some other "being" inhabit it? No...this process is just too
creepy.
Tam
Why not? Maybe I could be thawed out in the
next Mellinium, and maybe by then the Wizard will have won the NBA championship...Besides,
it would be pretty cool to witness the changes far into the future...of course, that would
not be my bag, seeing as I am going to be set on fire when I croak, so my ashes can be
scattered next to Sarge's...
Luki, 31
Valhalla
No way. When I'm dead, I'm dead.
Laura, 37
Lowell, MA
USA
What's the fun in coming back in a few years
if all your loved ones are dead? No, I don't want to be frozen.
Reba, 50+
Silver Spring, MD USA
No way.
The natural circle of life is perfectly fine with me.
Firelady, 24
Frisco, TX
USA
Didn't that dude also go into space? That
bastard. It pisses me off that if you have a million dollars to just throw around
you can do anything you damn well please. Me, I'm working my ass off to be a physicist so
that someday I might even be able to WORK on a shuttle, let alone go into space. I won't
be able to see space because I wear contacts, or I have a heart murmur I never detected
before. But if I was a millionare, that wouldn't matter, would it? And you know what? I'll
never be a millionaire because I'm going to be a goddam physicist! That said, yeah, I
wanna be frozen. There's so much technology I'll never live to see, so many unsolved
physics problems...and I don't ever want to grow old. Read Contact, by Carl Sagan.
Cancer, 20
NYC, NY
USA
No. I find that whole thing creepy. Like who
really believes that they are going to be able to put your frozen head back on another
body and make it work?
Janet, 44
E. Brunswick, NJ USA
I honestly don't know. Not dying takes away
the fear of what (if any) life after death might be...but then again, what fun would it be
to live when all the ones you've loved are dead?
Angela, 18
Bella Vista, AR USA
No. I always think that I'd like to be a few
years younger/older because of whats going on or the people I'm with right now. I'd like
to be about 3 Years older to get with this one guy I like or a few years younger cuz maybe
I'd have a better chance making friends than I do now. My point is that we were put here
at this place and time for a reason, if I belonged in the future,I'll be reborn in it in
another life.
Em, 16
Harrisburg, PA USA
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