Writer's Block: Forever young
Dec. 11th, 2009 06:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
calzephyr[Error: unknown template qotd]If cryogenics became a real, affordable option (i.e., if you could freeze your body until aging and illnesses were better understood), would you consider it?
I'd have to say no, because the future is not always what it's cracked up to be. There was an excellent issue of Transmetropolitan that explored what happened to people who were frozen - they suffered from a sort of future shock and ended up in homeless shelters because the future had no reverance for the past, only a contractual obligation to fulfill.
If so, do you fear you'd miss out on the wisdom that comes with growing old and dying?
This is the illogical part of the question, because all living organisms grow old and die; cryogenics just time-shifts it (in theory).
I'd have to say no, because the future is not always what it's cracked up to be. There was an excellent issue of Transmetropolitan that explored what happened to people who were frozen - they suffered from a sort of future shock and ended up in homeless shelters because the future had no reverance for the past, only a contractual obligation to fulfill.
If so, do you fear you'd miss out on the wisdom that comes with growing old and dying?
This is the illogical part of the question, because all living organisms grow old and die; cryogenics just time-shifts it (in theory).
