People don't accept cryonics because ... maybe just because they don't want to live forever? It doesn't help that we've been bred into a society that raises us from day one that after we die, we go to 'Heaven'. For those who believe that, or even those on the fence, life is as much a step on a journey as it is a place to stay forever.

Also, the whole science of cryonics reeks of hocus-pocus. Like the article says, the people most likely to be attracted to cryonics are the really smart people who can understand it and the science that might one day bring people back to life. I mean, Cryonics sounds like a loud of bull to me.

"if you flash freeze your body fast enough after death, all your important biological material will not have time to degenerate, meaning that, in the future, medical science will have advanced enough to revive you." In the future, what future? Are we talking a hundred years, a thousand? It sounds like a bad way to waste a fortune. (and it does cost a fortune).

But the heart of the problem with cryonics is why would you want to live forever? Even if you had the money to afford the costly procedure ... what's the point? You'd be revived and you'd have to remake an entire network of friends, and you'd spend so much time yakking about the good ol' days with these friends and they wouldn't know what you were talking about. You'd be sad and completely disconnected, no family? no friends?

I think the first falsehood in this articles argument is the one that we are hunter-gatherers/explorers. Yeah, we like to explore, we like to move around and try new things, but at the same time, I know very few people in life who's ultimate dream doesn't involve settling down somewhere and living life. We're always exploring for that 'place', happiness, nirvana.

If we were really 'explorers', cryogenics would be awesome. Imagine getting to re-explore the world a few hundred years from now. But people aren't looking for a never-ending journey, they just want a state of peace.

I think, for most people, life is seen as a cycle. Growing up, getting old, dying, maybe we don't think about it, but we know its coming, I think a part of us even looks forward to it ... Are we going to be happy most of the time? Maybe not ... the question is are the happy moments worth living for?

Of course I would go through life again. Why not ... what's that movie ... "What Dreams May Come" ...