My sister sent me this article about cryogenics.
I thought it would be good material to write about. As I started reading, I was already composing my post in my head. I couldn’t wait to open a document and begin writing about all the controversial issues this topic brings up. For example, the advancement of science unchecked by the advancement of morals. The whole issue of the human soul: does it come back when/if a body is reanimated? The predicament of bodiless heads – how will they eat if they have no arms?
Ok, that last one may not be as deep as the others, but still a heady issue. Ha.
So anyway, on and on I read collecting deep, debatable issues along the way. Eager was I to write a controversial post and sit back and wait for the strings and strings of conversations that would start. I then read this and all other issues faded into the background:
“Alcor is not yet a threat to the $15-billion-a-year business of burying or cremating the dead. The same goes for the rest of the cryonics industry. In fact, the company has only one full-service rival, the Cryonics Institute, outside Detroit, which has preserved 68 bodies, including the mother and two wives of its founder, Robert C. W. Ettinger, who is 86.”
Including the mother and the (pay attention here) TWO WIVES of its founder.
Now. On the off chance that someday this whole reanimation thing pays off, I have to wonder if that was such a good idea.
I’m just saying.
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