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Cryopreservation (part 5) – how would you live?

Fleur @Fleura (34957) • United Kingdom 5 Apr 23

When a person comes into the world as a baby, they have parents or other adults to care for them. Over the next 18 years or so those carers provide everything the new person needs and teach them about how to get along in the...

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Cryopreservation (part 4) – who would revive you and why?

Fleur @Fleura (34957) • United Kingdom 1 Apr 23

So let’s assume you did decide that getting your body frozen would be a good idea. Maybe you have some disease which is currently incurable and means you die relatively young, like in your 40s, but you hope that in a few more...

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Cryopreservation (part 3) – who would pay for the revival?

Fleur @Fleura (34957) • United Kingdom 29 Mar 23

On top of all the practical complications, the dead person is paying for long-term cold storage but as far as I understand it this cost doesn’t cover the costs of trying to revive the person in future, so if this were to happen...

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Cryopreservation (part 2) – who could you trust?

Fleur @Fleura (34957) • United Kingdom 28 Mar 23

Of course the prospect of cryopreservation raises a literally endless list of questions. If you choose to freeze your body after death, how long will the company keep your body frozen? How will you even know if they don’t keep...

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Cryopreservation (part 1) – a new industry

Fleur @Fleura (34957) • United Kingdom 27 Mar 23

I read a post a few days ago by @noni1959 about cryonics: and in reply I said that I had so many thoughts about this subject there was far too much to put in one response, so I promised to write some posts, in fact a whole...

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Is death something to be afraid of?

sherwin bering @40yearoldlion (24) 21 Aug 22

Our body was never meant to function forever. Your heart stops beating soon. Blood will run out. Lungs will take its final gasp of breath. Yes you can afford expensive wellness programs. Hire the best doctor money can buy....

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Daily Bible Study

Valerie J. Routhieaux @just4him (323168) • Green Bay, Wisconsin 31 Oct 20

Day 83 Promise 542 John 17:1 These words spoke Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: 2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh,...

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Story Who Wants To Live Forever

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 3 Mar 20

Story Who Wants To Live Forever? There was a man in England, by the name of Alan Philips. He assumed he would live forever. He could eat and drink al he wanted, barely exercised, and in living off the millions he inherited from...

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I wonder when aging would stop

LK2018 @Letranknight2015 (52665) • Philippines 15 Jul 19

Okay I'm not saying about fountain of youth here. Maybe you might be rotting inside or having failed internal organs as you grow old. But what if your outside appearance doesn't change. Sadly, the only experiment was done with...

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Graphic Novel Review Alan Moore And Chris Sprouse Tom Strong Volume 1

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 22 Feb 19

2000 America’s Best Comics. – Spoiler alerts Delightfully eccentric superhero spoof by the creator of V For Vendetta and Watchmen. When Professor Strong and his wife are shipwrecked on an exotic island in 1900 the Professor...

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Would you want to live for ever?

John Welford @indexer (4852) • Leicester, England 27 Sep 18

A recent survey in the UK shows that 20% of respondents would take up the option of immortality were it to be offered to them. We are talking here about not dying - not some sort of incorporeal existence in an afterlife, or...

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What you must do to achieve immortality ..

Hazel Vee @epiffanie (11327) • Australia 20 Apr 18

. " Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality "..Dalai Lama ... ..... I wish I grew up guided by people who've been there and done that and shared their knowledge on what qualities one need to embrace in order to...

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Is immortality a life's goal?

eileenleyva @eileenleyva (27555) • Philippines 13 Oct 17

Amongst today's mind-boggling leaders, Tibet's Dalai Lama is one to admire. He is a fascinating character, reflecting the old but keeping up with the new. One of the several sayings that he lives by is this: Share your...

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Would immortality be boring or exciting?

Hope @1hopefulman (45111) • Canada 11 Jul 17

How do you view immortality? As something boring or as something exciting? If it was offered to you, would you jumb on it or would you refuse it? "When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with...

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Eternity, is it a curse?

Kuttu @Kuttu_007 (1939) • India 25 Apr 17

Immortality a curse or a blessing..?Think of a life without end without death.. everyone wish to live a long life but eventually we die.. if god grants you immortality will you accept it..is it a curse or blessing..??

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Horror Short Story Review: "The Strange Ormonds" by Leitch Ritchie

Siduri @msiduri (5687) • United States 27 Dec 16

The unnamed narrator tells the reader this story comes to him from the now deceased Dr. S— of B— who kept it a close secret probably for fear of ridicule. Dr. S— only revealed as much as he did on the occasion of the death of his...

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You Can Purchase a Back Up of Yourself Via Bitcoin!

Jani @jhechorain (1198) • Susanville, California 20 Dec 16

I came across this crazy idea earlier. Apparently a company will take your DNA and store it for you in exchange for bitcoin. Is this the gateway into immortality? The site is called genecoin if you would like to look it up and...

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Science Fiction Book Review - Anna Caltabianco - The Day Before Forever

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 19 Dec 16

2016 Gollancz Orion Books – Spoiler alerts A time travelling young looking woman called Rebecca Hatfield is the 8th in a line of immortal women, all called Hatfield. In being given the waters of immortality she is compelled to...

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If You have a lifespan of 500 years what will be the things you will try to accomplish?

Your Highness Emperor Albert Whisker @CaptAlbertWhisker (32760) • Calgary, Alberta 9 Sep 16

A long life is a huge fantasy of mine. I know I will eventually die but I save money for my health just in case the technology to make my life longer will exist within my lifespan. I mean nanobots and stem cell theraphy have tons...

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POOR OR RICH: Death vs. Immortality

Chrie Zzy @Chriezzy (280) • Quezon, Philippines 14 Aug 16

Whether you are rich or poor, everyone will eventually die. Unless, there is a rich man who can afford to discover immortality. Death is natural. Regardless of religion and state it will happen. Do you believe in immortality?

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