The future looks pretty bleak for us humans, esp. in the US, that I really don't want to be around when the shit really hits the fan, if things don't radically turn around very soon. And I'm not just talking about climate change. I can see conditions like the movie Soylent Green beginning before the end of my natural lifetime, so I don't want to be around for more than another 15-20 years if I'm right about this, regardless of my state of health by then. As Krushev once said about nuclear war, The living will envy the dead... If so, I don't want to be around to see it. On top of that, I don't feel I am so important or special that I need or deserve to be preserved or pass on to a future world after my natural death thru freezing or cyberspace. In the end, I'm no different than any other animal that exists and dies on this rock and should just pass into the dust. Which is also a reason I believe in cremation with no burial or storage of my ashes. Once everyone who knew me is dead, I too am gone for good and it really doesn't matter where my ashes went after that. No different at that point from some animal that lived and died in the wild.

I used to work a couple of blocks from Alcor. I never saw their value proposition. Freezing cells destroys them internally. There's little evidence that consciousness survives in a dead body, frozen or not.

But then I never did worry about death. And now I look forward to it because it means there's an endpoint to all the bullshit. Don't get me wrong -- I'm not depressed or unhappy, I'm just not impressed enough with the human condition to want it to go on forever. I'd even take a magic pill that conferred biological immortality, just to have choices and satisfy curiosity while it lasts. I think life is still a bit too short and nasty. However ... I also am pretty convinced we're creatures of time and we all have a "best used by" date.

As you can only be frozen after death, seems a bit pointless. But I guess it is a lucrative business... but businesses fail eventually, end game.

The older I get... The more I know I would NOT want to come back in the future.

Watch Idiocracy.... We are headed that way.

It's a little creepy

The last thing I want my kids to be thinking about is that their mom is in a freezer somewhere. We are not meant to be on this blue marble forever.

I don’t get the whole point frankly. Freeze yourself for what? To wake up to a world you are a stranger in with no family or friends. What happens when your body breaks down again... Would you be disappointed?