Jan. 12, 1967: It's Cold in Here

My understanding is the freeze process causes a lot of cells to undergo lysis (rupture). So, unless you would like to be a sandwich for some future predator alien, what's the point?

You are likely correct and in my case it would be just a plain baloney sandwich.The following is my baloney on options to longevity:

There are other routes to longevity than cryonics. Richard Feynman once said, "There is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death." We know from the second law of thermodynamics that entropy is always increasing. This increase shows up as an ever increasing level of errors in our genetic and cellular level. This is the chaos that will result in death for all of us eventually. There is a lot of study now undertaken on the reduction rates of entropy. By genetically selecting fruit flies, scientists have demonstrated that they can increase their live spans by 70%. If we reduce entropy in one place and direct the chaos to another place, we can increase our own live spans. So we can now demonstrate breeding as a method of increasing longevity. Other methods are yet to be found but are expected to be discovered by the year 2050 (Michio Kaku, "Physics of The Future"). It will likely be possible to slow aging by a variety of therapies; stem cell and gene therapy to fix aging genes. Kaku thinks we may yet live to 150 years by 2100.

Another method is to simply lower our caloric intake by 30% and see an increase in aging to increase by 30%. A university of Wisconsin study has demonstrated that rhesus monkeys can live longer and healthier lives by reducing our caloric intake. There are genes in the human body called SIRTs that produce proteins sirtuin when a cell is under fed as in lower calorie intake. The cell goes into a slow hibernation. Some products stimulate sirtuins and reservatol is one. Thats why red wine is promoted as a healthy product because it has natural reservatol. And I'll drink to that.

Isn't death just the final chapter of life? Extending life as we have, has only placed more burden than benefit on society (in my humble opinion). We all know we are going to die....we just don't want it to be tomorrow. Unless science can make the extension (with or without an intermission) a happy and productive benefit, why not just face the inevitable and let nature take it's course? Earth's population continues to grow at an increasing rate without science planning to accelerate it.