Creepy; Dogma; Flesh
These are the headings to this thoughtful and rather beautiful piece on extending life, fleeing death, and slowly becoming not beautiful. It talks about new technologies for prolonging youth and the implications we ignore. And, of course, China.
Little attention was being paid to two serious disadvantages: what might the world be like when you emerged from the deep freeze, would they still have iPods and aeroplanes, supermarkets and killer heels. And secondly, why would anyone bother to defrost you when you had already paid up and had no possible means of redress. Who would want to resurrect a cluster of damp and out of date individuals, who would merely hang around adding to the world's population problem?
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