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by kuschku 3548 days ago
And again others just accept that their death will have come to them, they’ll sort their lives out, tie up loose ends, and, feeling they’ve done everything worth doing, having lived a fulfilling life, just embrace death.

Cryonics is a very risky, and, with current technology, likely unreversable procedure, so relying on it to tie up your loose ends someday is silly. It’s almost religious in the unreasonable belief that someone higher – here "future humanity" – will be able to help you.

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I think a "secular religion" is exactly the best frame through which to understand transhumanism.