Re:You Only Live Twice
by jodrellblank on Friday December 12, 2008 @10:12PM
(#396432)
Reasons why cryonics is dumb:
Life is suffering (Buddha, n B.C.)
Death is void.
Nothing > suffering.
But there's a wall of pain/fear/effort/risk with suicide that keeps people inside life. Once you're dead, you're forced past the wall and it's a simple choice:
more suffering or no suffering?
Immortality by not dieing isn't quite the same option - avoiding old age suffering or going to old age suffering? Easy, being alive and rejuvenated wins.
Life is suffering (Buddha, n B.C.) Death is void. Nothing > suffering.
But there's a wall of pain/fear/effort/risk with suicide that keeps people inside life. Once you're dead, you're forced past the wall and it's a simple choice:
more suffering or no suffering?
Immortality by not dieing isn't quite the same option - avoiding old age suffering or going to old age suffering? Easy, being alive and rejuvenated wins.