Question #98 from "The Book of Questions" by Gregory Stock, PH.D.
Let's say that you have just learned that you will die from an incurable disease within three months. You have gotten 2nd and 3rd opinions and they all agree.
Would you allow yourself to be frozen one week from today if you knew it would give you a modest chance of being revived in 1,000 years and living a greatly extended life?
Why or why not?
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10 comments:
NOPE!!
I will spend those 3 months enjoying every moment of my life ... eating drinking dancing hugging kissing loving .... seeing being spreading love!!
In 1,000 years will my family and friends be around? What is life without them?
Since I believe in next lives and past lives and all of that ... I would choose to die and allow myself to go where souls go ... untill the next life ....
what? you've got to be kidding. What life would I have in 1000 years without my friends and loved ones. Why would I want to play God and try to predetermine life. No, better to live life as it is dealt. 3 months? Possibly...or maybe it is more. Stranger things have happened. Wouldn't it be grand if we could always live our lives as if we only has 2 to 3 months to live. I wonder how I would live mine?
First, as my wife seems to blame me for stuff I am completely innocent of . . . I would make sure she gets the horrible disease too . . and we can be frozen together.
At first my thoughts were no way, I want to enjoy every minute I have left. If, however, I was going to be really suffering and have no quality of life left and wouldn't be able to enjoy those last few months and it would be really hard on my family seeing me suffer, I would do the frozen thing, maybe, but even then it would probably be really scarey to wake up in a totally different world 1000 years from now.
No. Definitely no.
I believe things happen for a reason, and while I might not want to go, if it is my time, then it is my time.
nope. I'd end up like Mel Gibson in that one movie.
Absolutely not. I would live the next three months to the fullest and love, laugh and enjoy life with my loved ones.
1.000 Years from now??? I would be terrible lost and confused to see the world then...if there even is a world as we know it at that time.
I believe in the afterlife and that is where my departed loves one are and I want to see them someday.
Three months are 90 days to spend with my loved ones doing and making memories with them. Those who need to see what the world is like in 1,000 years are those who are born in that time.
Yes, I would. I would love to see the world in 1000 years, since I don't have any real deep family ties outside my immediate family, I believe it'd be a real experience. It'd be a whole new world to learn about and explore, imagine how far technology and learning would have come by then!
Although it'd depend if I got to keep some money, because going into a new world dirt poor wouldn't be much fun.
Not in a million years. To be with my loved ones for 3 more months would be the most meaningful of my life.
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