Where's Walts Body?

November

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Scary thought. At it's best, what place would you have in such a society? I doubt most people could handle it. Imagine someone from 200 years, or 2 thousand years ago, revived today. I doubt their sensibilities could handle it, especially if their families, religions, nations and such are just history and no longer in existence.

And the reason I consider most likely to revive people is for slave labor. And other thoughts to come to mind, such as nonhumans (perhaps evolved long after humanity has gone extinct or beings from another world) for vivisection and other biological studies, essentially studying us with the same cruelty humanity studies what we consider lesser lifeforms.

But given typical corporate depravity, I'd say they'd sell your organs and dispose of your body anyway the moment they thought they could get away with it, especially if they needed more cryotube coffins but didn't want to buy more, or even just cut back on power costs. In many cases it's not like anyone is going to sue. Hell, with inheritance issues and many other reasons, even wealthy families would have a personal interest in making sure the said person never returned to life.

And that aside, there is one thing I fear more than death: not being able to die.

And if there is a life after death then the greatest irony is that this process could make one "truly dead" by confining a spirit to a body in suspended animation, making them more dead than the dead. Though who knows, maybe nothingness is better than the hereafter...
 
What a really bad idea, being cryogenically frozen as climate change is going to end your chances of reanimation. Supposing an accident happens and you are reanimated, whose going to look after you?
 
What a really bad idea, being cryogenically frozen as climate change is going to end your chances of reanimation. Supposing an accident happens and you are reanimated, whose going to look after you?

Hahaha I that just gave me an image of frozen heads melting in the sun! Maybe Futurama had some inside goss 😉

(Side note - as everyone in Oz has been so stirred up in a frenzy over the threat of heat, I cant help but wonder if our collective fears have helped manifest it.)

confining a spirit to a body in suspended animation, making them more dead than the dead.

That's the best point. How do they know their consciousness is also contained, and what would that be like? I would probably put more trust in the Altered Carbon/Dollhouse idea of stored memory being uploaded into new bodies. I hadn't really thought of where this topic of discussion might go when I posted it, but yeah, interesting 🙂

It would really creep me out if Walt was buried under a ride in Disneyland.
 
No no no what would really creep you out would be finding out the guy behind you, tapping your shoulder was Walt, while on a ride at Disneyland.
 
November
November
EEEK! Or if he turned up in one of the photos!
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