[eli_gottlieb]

>Witness, for example, the obstinate resistance to cryonics even among those who would eagerly seek out an untested and experimental surgery to avoid death at the hands of cancer or heart disease.

There is a vast difference between an untested, experimental surgery to save you from death and a tested, nonworking procedure that relies on beneficent future people to invent wholly new technologies to save you from death.

Cryonics is not about saving lives, it's about hoping against the evidence to recreate them when they are already gone.

If you want to cheat death, you need to actually conduct an experimental science of cheating death (ie: preserving and restoring people before they are truly dead) rather than just buying the first available option, no matter how scientifically unworkable and technologically unrefined, like a lottery ticket.

The Wright brothers did not bet that their first design for an airplane would work. They experimented until they arrived at a design that did work.