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Why would ANYONE want to do anything other than preserving your dead body as much as possible? That way, just in case later down the road they come up with the technology, your body (especially your brain) might be intact enough to revive you and your memories. If your body is burned up or rotted that possibility goes out the window...
 
SaltyNuts said:
Why would ANYONE want to do anything other than preserving your dead body as much as possible? That way, just in case later down the road they come up with the technology, your body (especially your brain) might be intact enough to revive you and your memories. If your body is burned up or rotted that possibility goes out the window...
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ah so you like my space travel idea!
 
you see, cbrunny

when we die our bodies become the grass

and the antelope *eat* the grass

and so, we are all connected in the great circle of life
 
Well, I'm no rocket surgeon, but I'm not sure shooting your body into space, with it being 3 or 4 degrees above absolute zero, and with it striking your dead body with deadly radiation all the time, and possibly being sucked into a star or black hole or what not, is completely consistent with my view of preserving it to the greatest extent possible...
 
Do. Not. Care. I'm not Jewish (observant or otherwise) so at the point, it simply won't be my problem any more... 😉 (At least I hope not. Though if I turn out to be wrong about that, I dare say 'll have more pressing concerns...:dizzy:)
 
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SaltyNuts said:
Why would ANYONE want to do anything other than preserving your dead body as much as possible? That way, just in case later down the road they come up with the technology, your body (especially your brain) might be intact enough to revive you and your memories. If your body is burned up or rotted that possibility goes out the window...
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Why would they want to do that?
 
SaltyNuts said:
Why would ANYONE want to do anything other than preserving your dead body as much as possible? That way, just in case later down the road they come up with the technology, your body (especially your brain) might be intact enough to revive you and your memories. If your body is burned up or rotted that possibility goes out the window...
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But first "they'll" have to come up with a suitable preservation technique... Didn't that sort of cryogenics go out with the 70s?* I very seriously doubt "they'll" ever come up with way to reanimate (or even "recycle"😵) a formaldehyde- or alcohol-pickled corpse to anything like useful (or even usable) condition...

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ETA: * Hmm. One wonders if any of those flash-frozen corpsicles are still sitting around out there, and/or what happened to them when that era's "start-ups" went belly up? (no pun intended🙁) Probably weren't many to begin with, but if memory serves, there were at least a few...
 
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Mike64 said:
But first "they'll" have to come up with a suitable preservation technique... Didn't that sort of cryogenics go out with the 70s?* I very seriously doubt "they'll" ever come up with way to reanimate (or even "recycle"😵) a formaldehyde- or alcohol-pickled corpse to anything like useful (or even usable) condition...

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ETA: * Hmm. One wonders if any of those flash-frozen corpsicles are still sitting around out there, and/or what happened to them when that era's "start-ups" went belly up? (no pun intended🙁) Probably weren't many to begin with, but if memory serves, there were at least a few...
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I think you underestimate the possibilities of future technology! They MIGHT not ever achieve the tech, but if they do, and you didn't preserve yourself, you fooked up big time!
 
Ns1 said:
tibetan sky burial
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This is my first preference or a Parsi Tower of Silence. Absent that, then the a Muslim burial would be my second preference: wrap in sheet and bury by sundown. Under no circumstances do I want to be embalmed, a truly disgusting practice.
 
WelshBloke said:
No, why would they defrost you? It's not like there's ever a shortage of people. Why would they waste resources on one that's already dead?
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LOL, for real? Because you sign a contract with the company who you pay a bunch of money to preserve your body, and your next of kin can sue the shiat out of them if they don't follow the contract and revive you once the technology becomes available?
 
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LOL, for real? Because you sign a contract with the company who you pay a bunch of money to preserve your body, and your next of kin can sue the shiat out of them if they don't follow the contract and revive you once the technology becomes available?
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After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn't care no more about him, because I don't take no stock in dead people.

- Huck Finn
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IronWing said:
This is my first preference or a Parsi Tower of Silence. Absent that, then the a Muslim burial would be my second preference: wrap in sheet and bury by sundown. Under no circumstances do I want to be embalmed, a truly disgusting practice.
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You should go with the Ferengi burial. Some doctor got into deep shit for cutting into that corpse.
 
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