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I'd rather die!

you know, until there is a cure...not only from the disease they died from...but from DEATH itself....
 
kittynh said:
you know, until there is a cure...not only from the disease they died from...but from DEATH itself....
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Dr Aubrey De Grey is on a TV docu at moment in UK which is where I heard the place.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4003063.stm

This means that all parts of the project should be fully working in mice within just 10 years and we might take only another 10 years to get them all working in humans.
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I thought Id seen that mouse before! :D

http://www.mprize.org/
 
It's so sad. I hear a lot about cancer, heart disease, AIDS...

But no one wants to talk about what the real problem is.

Did you know that death is still the number one killer in America today? In fact, it may be the number one killer in the world! We must find a cure before this becomes a worldwide problem.
 
Its been that way forever Angry skeptic,I may be sticking my neck out here but I bet it always will be.:)
 
Yeah, growing a new body around a brain DOES seem like a long shot.

Even if it was successful, I am not so sure I want to wake up in a hundred years with no husband, siblings, or kids around. I sort of love them. I would be lonely.

Remember that James Taylor song, "Frozen Man"? (On the "Copperline" CD) He said, "When I'm dead/Make sure I'm gone/Don't leave 'em nothing to work on"
 
I doubt that cryogenics is really viable, as tissue still dies in the long run and I highly doubt that the individual can be "resurrected" even with future tech...

But speaking as a transhumanist/futurist, I'm all for longetivity and possibly even death-ending methods, though I still think we're far away from viable means. Nonetheless, in the words of Robert Ettinger, "Being born is not a crime, so why must it carry a sentence of death?"
 
When they can freeze a monkey and bring it back in perfect health, then I may pay attention.


Steph: I'm sure they offer a family rate....;)


And finally, who's to say they'd want to bring you back. Some Shmo from Philly who drank himself to death? Why bother?
 
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And finally, who's to say they'd want to bring you back. Some Shmo from Philly who drank himself to death? Why bother?
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See, ya gotta play it smart.

Pick a bank that you think might stick around for a hundred years... okay, maybe this step is harder than it sounds.

But then you put money in this bank, right before you die. The money stays there in your name, and you collect the interest. After long enough, you got loads of moola in the bank, in your name. If your last will and testament specifies that it is only withdrawable from yourself (and the bank doesn't decide to change their polic(ies), assuming they'd even allow that), then BAM! Sudden reason to want to take you out. This is especially true if you promise to donate, say, 90% of your cash to the person that revives you... and, admit it: For the chance of a "second life", or possibly immortal life, 90% of your total savings really isn't that much, is it?

Of course, you need a bank with a high interest rate... that you can trust to stay high.

But then, it's all a gamble anyways.
 
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Lonewulf said:
See, ya gotta play it smart.

Pick a bank that you think might stick around for a hundred years... okay, maybe this step is harder than it sounds.

But then you put money in this bank, right before you die. The money stays there in your name, and you collect the interest. After long enough, you got loads of moola in the bank, in your name. If your last will and testament specifies that it is only withdrawable from yourself (and the bank doesn't decide to change their polic(ies), assuming they'd even allow that), then BAM! Sudden reason to want to take you out. This is especially true if you promise to donate, say, 90% of your cash to the person that revives you... and, admit it: For the chance of a "second life", or possibly immortal life, 90% of your total savings really isn't that much, is it?

Of course, you need a bank with a high interest rate... that you can trust to stay high.

But then, it's all a gamble anyways.
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That's my theory of time machines and why there aren't any. Because everyone would go back in time, put their money in a bank, go forward in time and be very, very rich. Eventually, everyone would do that and we would all be rich.

Oh, wait...maybe they all live in California. THAT explains the housing boom.
 
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That's my theory of time machines and why there aren't any. Because everyone would go back in time, put their money in a bank, go forward in time and be very, very rich. Eventually, everyone would do that and we would all be rich.

Oh, wait...maybe they all live in California. THAT explains the housing boom.
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Wouldn't work. Banks would collapse, interest rates would go way down, or something else. There's only so many resources that can go around, after all, and so many resources that banks actually possess.

Not to mention the SEVERE inflation that would occur as money from the future became money from the past, and as a result the paper dollar becomes more and more worthless.
 
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This sure is going to complicate the tasks of Monsieur Trichet and Mr Bernanke.
"The next meeting of the European Central Bank will be held in Frankfurt on july 8, 2079"
 
Isn't this where Ted Williams (the legendary Baseball player) now "rests"?
 
Was Walt Disney cryo'd,or was that just a rumour?

Edit:checked snopes.Seems it was a rumour.
 
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