so last night I was watching a program debunking the idiocies of cryonics, how some wanting to live forever via freezing the body, or blech! just the head, upon death then hopefully thawed out and brought to life in some distant future.
when the resident dr. skeptic says the reason of course that some individuals shell out close to a quarter million smoliens to be frozen when still warm on the slab is that we have, if we're lucky, only 10 decades on this earth.
100 years sounds like a long time, a very long life, indeed. but 10 decades? that sounds like a long summer vacation. we only get 10 of these suckers, if that.
Rutger Hauer as Replicant Roy Batty in Ridley Scott's adaptation of Philip K. Dick's book Do Andriods Dream of Electric Sheep?, Blade Runner meets his maker Tyrell, head of his eponymous corp. that manufactures Replicants.
--what can I do for you, Tyrell asks the rebel Batty.
--I want more life, fucker!
does that sound bitter? hope not since I love the movie, and esp. this scene where Batty confronts not only his mortality, but the mortality and limits of the person who created him.
I have a deep belly laugh for the folly of persons who shell out significant sums on their wish to outlive us all.
how dare they want to live forever!
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Have you ever seen the film Timothy Leary’s Dead
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"Leary himself spins bizarre conspiracy theories about the 1960s while telling the press that he is planning to broadcast his death over the Internet and have his head cryogenically frozen. The grisly ending actually shows the decapitation of the dead man's head, but it's not clear whether it really took place or was staged for the camera"
it made an impression
love
i've not seen the film, tho i recall reading about it some years ago. i also remember that leary's widow, i think, took a vile (i mean phial) of his ashes and blasted them into space to orbit us all for an eternity.
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