Not Even Up For Discussion

[poliphilo]

The media are giving a high profile to the story of a young person who has won the right to have her body cryogenically preserved against the day when the disease that killed her can be cured.

And no-one I've read or listened to has thought to ask why a soul would want to come back into a superannuated and damaged body. All start from the assumption that death is the end and souls are a figment of the religious imagination.

Where's the Archbishop of Canterbury when you need him?

Obviously I wouldn't expect a contemporary newshound to even consider interviewing a spiritualist or a spirit medium or a parapsychologist or anyone like that.

Comments

[matrixmann]

I'd ask a different question: What makes one so sure that the disease can be cured someday? What makes one so sure that this might be in foreseeable time - and not in like a few hundred years or so? Would you want to wake up in a world suddenly that doesn't work anymore like the one you used to know? Is that shock worth it to run away from a disease in the now?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Yet another question is whether the people of the future will be willing to wake the sleepers. They won't be under any obligation to do it- and it might well strike them as a cruel and ethically dubious thing to do.

[matrixmann]

Also is part of the possible.