what they believe is total obliteration and non-existence, for themselves and eventually for everything .
they know and love. Some people faced it gripped by apprehension of the unknown. Even religious .
people who believe in an afterlife would die gripped with the fear of Hell, feeling they haven't done .
enough or been good enough. Everyone dies bitterly aware of so much that they haven't done and .
haven't seen and haven't learned; and never will. Cryonics allows a person an extended chance in life to .
prevent these feelings from covering them like a blanket upon what would have been their death. It .
gives people a chance to do things that they never had time to do. .
Cryonics also allows for the chance that families will no longer suffer any loss. Loved ones will .
be together forever. Death becomes only a temporary separation -- one to be met not with tears and .
grief but with purpose and responsibility. .
Because those in cryonic suspension won't survive without the efforts of others -- not just .
donations and volunteer activity to the provider caring for them, but effort towards building a humane, .
compassionate, free, and knowledgeable world -- the only world in which cryonics revival will be .
undertaken, and the sort of world that cryonics members work toward today, is a world in which .
immortality is not thought of as immoral or as a defiance of God. It is my belief that God's intention has .
always been for us to pursue knowledge, therefore immortality as knowledge is not blasphemous. .
Cryonics and immortality benefits those religious folks who want to be God's good graces. For if one .
is immortal, then no judgement has been made; good or bad. .
Patients undergoing cryonic suspension are, indeed, already legally dead. Cryonics .
organizations cannot freeze a person who has not been declared legally dead due to civil and criminal .
laws. However, people who are declared legally dead from ailments such as stroke and heart attack are .