Not long ago there was a new article via my RSS Feed about a young sleep who was dying from a terminal form of brain cancer, to be exact: Glioblastoma multiforme. After exhausting all options including (but not limited to) trial and experimental treatments however nothing slowed her cancer and she was given months to live.
According to the Huffington Post, originally Kim Suozzi called to reddit for donations for to “do fun things before she died” and later decided that the one thing that would give her peace was to be preserved via cryogenics.
In fact, according to her blog, this turned out to be her final wish.
I want to be cryopreserved upon my death. Many of you know that I’m agnostic; I don’t have any clue what happens when you die, but have no reason to think that my consciousness will continue on after death. The only thing that I can think to make me feel a little more at ease with my death is to secure cryopreservation plans on the off-chance that they figure out how to revive people in the future. The way I see it, it’s a better bet than decomposing or getting cremated.
As much as it pains me to say it (being raised Roman Catholic) I have to agree with her to some extent. Do we really know what happens after we all passed from this Earth? Not really… and to quote the movie “Contact” with Jodie Foster:
Ellie Arroway: So what’s more likely? That an all-powerful, mysterious God created the Universe, and decided not to give any proof of his existence? Or, that He simply doesn’t exist at all, and that we created Him, so that we wouldn’t have to feel so small and alone?
Oh the joys of the scientific mindset… the bane of my existance, but how does the above quote relate to death? That sometimes it is easier to believe that our consciousness lives on as opposed to suddenly stop existing altogether. We as humans would prefer to believe that a part of of lives on or that there is that sense of immortality as opposing to say that death is the equivalent to no longer existing…
But I am getting ahead of myself.