Theos-Talk Archives (December 2002 Message tt00491)

For the secular side Steve, how about those folks who have themselves
frozen in hopes that future technology may what? revive them? That's
about the same as resurrection except they have faith in the gods of
science instead of religion.

That movie COMA by the way was a real futuristic nightmare. I remember a
B flick entitled SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN where some guy wakes up in a
hospital bed minus a leg, then a few few weeks later minus the other
legs, then the arms...

How does cloning fit into all this? Have yourself cloned if you can
afford it for body replacement parts? Or await the day when your memory
can be downloaded into a younger model of yourself?

Larry

On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 20:13:24 -0000 "Steve Stubbs
<stevestubbs@yahoo.com>" <stevestubbs@yahoo.com> writes:
> --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Mic Forster <micforster@y...> 
> wrote:
> > In our own instant oatmeal culture though the
> > sacredness behind death has gone completely out the
> > window.
> 
> You got me to thinking. I am sure that statement is true for you 
> personally, but the fact that people pay a fortune to have corpses 
> filled with embalming fluid, then after admiring them in a grotesque 
> 
> manner have them placed in very expensive wooden boxes and lowered 
> into concrete encasements (water proof, no less) and preserved in 
> perpetuity, then go to church and pray that all these stiffs pop up 
> out of the ground alive some day suggests that society in general is 
> 
> not all that secular. Some of these superstitions are so 
> preposterous that it is hard to believe they still endure, but 
> endure 
> they do.
> 
> Many years ago when I was a kid I worked for a few months in a 
> retail 
> store. I had a regular customer whoworked for a funeral home and 
> came in late wearing a jacket with the business' logo on it. He had 
> 
> to master that somebody-just-died look that they all affect in that 
> business, so I tried to make him smile with bad jokes. One night he 
> 
> came in especially late and I asked him: "Are you just dead?" Not 
> the slightest change of facial expression, but he did not like the 
> comment because he told me I would be laughing out the other side of 
> 
> my mouth if I knew how much green there is in the funeral racket. 
> He 
> felt compelled to tell me how much green there is in, and when he 
> did 
> I felt compelled to whistle. I wouldn't touch that business with an 
> 
> undertaker's shovel, but people are not unsentimental about rotting 
> corpses.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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