Silent Servants...

Silent Servants...

... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.

A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)



Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Please freeze me, whoa yeah...

...like I freeze you.*

Please freeze me! How scores of middle-class British couples are hoping to buy immortality for just £10 a week

They discuss the desire of people for the technique but they don't get into the science. I read a good article on the science of it one time. I'm not sure where I read it but I'll search for it. I think one of the major concerns is what to do with all the cells that burst from being frozen (and that's most of them!). The article stated that this, and other things, were at present, insurmountable obstacles.

(The subject line is a riff on a line from an old Beatle's song. That's how old I am. If you understand it, you're old too. )

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