Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Cryogenics
Imagine dropping a penny down the drain every twenty seconds for the rest of time, and you have a pretty good analogy for the colossal waste of money and resources they call cryogenic freezing. If there's a worse use of money out there that doesn't involve killing people, I can't think of it. Even burning the money could provide heat for some homeless people in the winter.
The only justification you could possibly offer for this incredible waste of good money is that maybe, just possibly, some day in the remote future, someone might find a way of reviving you. If someday we find a way to bring frozen people back from the dead and if someone has bothered to keep you frozen all that time. The odds against waking up and finding yourself in the 23rd century are astronomical, so how can you justify the $50-100 per day it'll take just to keep you frozen all that time?
Not only is cryogenic freezing pointless, it's irresponsible and makes you look like a dumbass. If you used that $50 per day for, say, charitable donations, you might accomplish something worthwhile. Hell, even if you used the money to buy yourself a yacht, at least you've got something to show for it besides your own frozen corpse. Basically what putting yourself in the deep freezer tells the world is, "I'm so fucking rich, I can blow fifty fucking dollars every fucking day to have myself fucking frozen! Fuck all you poor people! Fuck all you hungry people! Fuck all you homeless people! In your face!" Is that really the message you want to send?
Instead of providing for your family after you kick the bucket, you're using all your (presumably) hard-earned cash to run a fucking freezer? Exuse me, I just need to stumble around in confusion for a minute while I try to work out how anyone could possibly be that fucking stupid.
Another thing that sucks is that the people who can afford to be frozen are the least deserving of a second chance at life. So if on the off chance science someday progresses to the point where we can revive dead tissue, what do we get? Donald Trump v2.0? Can you legitimately call technology that enables us to bring dead millionaires back from the dead 'progress?'
So here's what I say. Let these millionaire assholes freeze themselves, irresponsibly wasting money by the sackful while their families starve. Let them cling to their irrational hope as long as the power grid remains intact and their funds hold out. Let them while away the eons with the impossible hope of one day returning to life etched in their frozen brains. I know I for one won't work too hard trying to figure out how to bring them back.
The only justification you could possibly offer for this incredible waste of good money is that maybe, just possibly, some day in the remote future, someone might find a way of reviving you. If someday we find a way to bring frozen people back from the dead and if someone has bothered to keep you frozen all that time. The odds against waking up and finding yourself in the 23rd century are astronomical, so how can you justify the $50-100 per day it'll take just to keep you frozen all that time?
Not only is cryogenic freezing pointless, it's irresponsible and makes you look like a dumbass. If you used that $50 per day for, say, charitable donations, you might accomplish something worthwhile. Hell, even if you used the money to buy yourself a yacht, at least you've got something to show for it besides your own frozen corpse. Basically what putting yourself in the deep freezer tells the world is, "I'm so fucking rich, I can blow fifty fucking dollars every fucking day to have myself fucking frozen! Fuck all you poor people! Fuck all you hungry people! Fuck all you homeless people! In your face!" Is that really the message you want to send?
Instead of providing for your family after you kick the bucket, you're using all your (presumably) hard-earned cash to run a fucking freezer? Exuse me, I just need to stumble around in confusion for a minute while I try to work out how anyone could possibly be that fucking stupid.
Another thing that sucks is that the people who can afford to be frozen are the least deserving of a second chance at life. So if on the off chance science someday progresses to the point where we can revive dead tissue, what do we get? Donald Trump v2.0? Can you legitimately call technology that enables us to bring dead millionaires back from the dead 'progress?'
So here's what I say. Let these millionaire assholes freeze themselves, irresponsibly wasting money by the sackful while their families starve. Let them cling to their irrational hope as long as the power grid remains intact and their funds hold out. Let them while away the eons with the impossible hope of one day returning to life etched in their frozen brains. I know I for one won't work too hard trying to figure out how to bring them back.
# posted by Ben @ 8:39 PM 
