X-Message-Number: 29027
From: "Beth Bailey" <>
Subject: My brief pro-cryonics "rant"
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 13:30:48 -0500


My response to Blogspot's resident 93 year old blogger ( 
http://dontoearth.blogspot.com/2007/01/it-bothers-me-that-i-have-to-go.html ) is
as follows:


As several others have commented, if you truly do not want to "go" and if you 
are at least willing to entertain the scientific possibility of coming back, 
visit Alcor.org and cryonics.org


As a Registered Nurse, I believe that life and what humans perceive as 
consciousness is a function of chemical and electrical activity that takes place
in the body and brain. When those chemical and electrical impulses cease to the
point where they cannot be restored, death occurs. Death results in oblivion. 
There is no soul, nor is there any spiritual or supernatural afterlife.


Philosophers debate about Pascal's Wager: "Let us weigh the gain and the loss in
wagering that God is. Let us estimate these two chances. If you gain, you gain 
all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation that He is."
- Blaise Pascal


I believe that God exists, and I believe that God wants every human to live up 
to his or her full potential, using all of the skills, talents, abilities and 
intelligence they are able to marshall.


However, when you die, it's "Game Over." There is no heaven or hell, except the 
one that you create and experience for yourself while you are alive.


Therefore, I consider cryopreservation a worthy gamble. Let's compare the pros 
and cons of betting that cryopreservation upon legal death succeeds. If your 
remains are buried or cremated, you have no chance of being revived, but if you 
are rapidly placed in biostasis while your mind still remains intact, science 
and technology may progress to the point where your body can be revived and 
healed or replaced. Thus, if the procedure works, you live. If the procedure 
doesn't work, you simply remain dead. The oft quoted line from pro-cryonics 
literature states, "Being frozen is the second worst thing that can happen to 
you."

Lastly, life is worth living at any age...

Kind regards,
Beth Bailey


"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write 
something worth reading or do things worth the writing." - Benjamin Franklin


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