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I personally feel that cryonics gives myself and my loved ones a better chance of continued existence than any other current option. I hope to partake in the greatest experiment of all time - a measure which will benefit myself and others regardless of whether I am revived because all scientific experiments can be learned from and are potentially useful. Aside from the possibility that people could live much longer, richer lives, cryonics can also help us understand how to store organs for transplant, suspend animation, and heal brain damage - to name a few other benefits.

It is the issue of organ storage and donation that led me to research cryonics during the time I was a potential organ donor. I now prefer to keep my organs for myself once I am legally dead. (Instead of donating I now support an "opt-out" system whereby deceased individuals are automatically considered donors - unless they have stipulated otherwise - so as to increase the supply of healthy organs for those in need of them. Supporting stem-cell and anti-aging research also improves the chances of saving lives and giving those lives a greater quality and duration than today's medicine currently provides.)

In addition to cryonics I have an interest in life-extension through medicines, a good diet, and regular exercise. Cryonics is part of my ethics - how I intend to live - and provides a chance to live well into the future and be part of a progressive movement which seeks an end to aging, sickness, and death.

What cryonicists need to do now is show the medical establishment that the value of the cryonics procedure is worth the effort. Every living being has the right to life. To not provide the option of cryonic treatment could be seen as a violation of that right and of the natural survival instincts that have kept our species alive for over 200,000 years.

Cryonics already exists as a medical procedure. More than 120 people are now in cryostasis and about 1,000 more have signed the legal documents to ensure that they will be preserved when their time comes. There are many more still, however, who are not in a financial, legal, or geographical position to take advantage of this life-conserving medicine, a situation which strikes me as absurd and unfair. While people unnecessarily die in fear, the hospitals, the law, and general public opinion lag behind the strides taken by cryonicists. Cryonics is an available technology with the potential for saving lives. Letting people irreversibly decay when they might want to be preserved is unreasonable and unjust. If physicians are serious about saving lives - and if people really do want to live long and healthy lives - then we should all take cryonics seriously.

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