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12/2/2010 12:00:08 PM

SUSPEND

12/2/2010 12:56:49 PM

Cryonics doesn't work. It's snake oil.

12/3/2010 9:41:38 AM

This isn't a goddamn comic book, don't you understand that human cells die if they freeze?

Hell, why not burn me and keep my ashes so they can recombine me in the future.

12/3/2010 12:58:11 PM

b-b-b-but, in the future they'll have nanotechnology to repair the damage to your cells!

Take a mush of necrotic brain cells and recombine them into your exact brain, is it still you?

12/3/2010 3:06:44 PM

This scenario is similar to one where a planet is sucked into a blackhole (wormhole). Technically all the data is there. It is just a matter of putting it all back together on the other side to form the planet exactly the way it was before it went into the blackhole. Theoretically, it is very possible.

12/3/2010 4:06:27 PM

But the question is largely philosophical. Even if technology was sufficiently advanced enough to recombine or even just create from nothingness an exact copy of whole planet down to the subatomic particle, would the reconstructed or created brains be the same person? They'd have all the same experiences and feelings and personality of the previous brain, but the previous planet was still destroyed.

You can't un-kill a person. Even if the technology comes around to fix the absolutely catastrophic physical brain damage that cryonics causes at that point it's creating a whole new person, in my opinion. You still died and you're not coming back.
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On the topic of the OP, generally speaking I'd go with the doctor's opinion (and possibly a second and third opinion from an entirely different group of doctors). If they say they can't bring me back and trying to do so would put a great financial burden on the surviving then forget about this decaying mass of cells and move on.

[Edited on December 3, 2010 at 4:37 PM. Reason : .]

12/3/2010 4:27:05 PM