The frozen family

2008-02-04T14:02:00.000-08:00

The concept of going somewhere else after death sounds silly to me.
Death is the end of everything as far as I’m concerned. I go nowhere else.
Why does life have to finish for ever?
I want to do so many things. I’d need many years to fulfil all of my dreams. One day we’ll be able to go to sleep for a few centuries at a time. Then we come back to life and enjoy the universe again.
We should have periods of rest in a tank, where life itself stops as we hibernate. We sleep for a hundred years and then start all over again with a fresher body and mind.
This kind of thing can go on for ever. I want to die when I’m tired of life and not when nature says so.

WHY DO WE HAVE TO DIE?

Life eternal
With promises of heaven
Doesn’t fulfil me

I’d like to climb Mount Everest
Visit the Chinese wall
And go to Peru

I dream of taking the space Shuttle
And seeing earth from space
As well as landing on the moon

So many things I want to do
But don’t have time
Why couldn’t we live longer?

Polar bears hibernate
And some other animals do
In this world
.
I wish we could suspend time
Or lengthen life
Until we attain immortality

I have a transhumanist wish
Of living for hundreds of years
To see humanity changing

Why do we have to die?
We must stop this abomination
Affecting all of our generations
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I’LL REMEMBER YOU ALL

As I step out of the cryo-casket
I’ll look at my surroundings
With the curiosity of the newborn

Everyone I’ve known will be gone
Friends and family will lie under the ground
In some unknown cemetery

I’ll be in a world full of wonders
Where laws might be different
And customs strange

I’ll remember Blogger.com
With all its members
Full of wit, humour, sarcasm

Qualities we now take for granted
Will be seen with distrust
In that future world

The internet might be part of the past
Replaced by a holographic, virtual reality world
Where anything happens

What is normal now
Might be illogical
And the unusual will rule

I’ll remember you all
When I step out
Of that cryo casket

Into a science fiction future
Full of marvels
And unending surprises

MY CHOICE

I want my body in ice
Where it’ll survive harshness

In a bed of cold liquid
It will last

Up to the end of time
Enshrouded in freshness

Far from cremation
And the tomb

There is no heaven
Hell stays a legend

The future for me
Lies in the frost

While others decompose
Becoming bones

Turning into dust
Back to the earth

Time will tell
Whether I’ll survive

Cocooned in ice
Marooned in age

CRYONICS

The frozen family