I spend more time than you’d think being annoyed I wasn’t born late enough to enjoy immortality through science.Apparently I have some pretty big fans in the "scientists who are figuring out we'll live forever space", since the people over at Salon immediately answered me with this article suggesting such a thing is not an impossibility:
Humans have yearned for immortality for as long as we‘ve understood our fragile permanence. But while dodging the Grim Reaper was once relegated to the realm of religious myth, now technology is attempting to find the cure for death. Most popular is the idea of cryopreservation — that is, any process which preserves biological tissues by storing them at extremely cold temperatures.For example, Zeleznikow-Johnston pointed out that hospitals already widely use deep hypothermic circulatory arrest, or induced hypothermia. By cooling patients down to roughly 18ยบ C, doctors can stop heart and brain activity to provide surgeons with a 45 to 60 minute operating window. The patients who are revived from this process keep their long-term memories, although they lose some working memories.
I look forward to waking up one day and having a laugh about all this with my new best friends Walt Disney and Ted fucking Williams.
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