{"id":77014,"date":"2018-03-19T02:22:44","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T09:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/just-call-cryogenic-suicide-what-it-is-selfie-death"},"modified":"2018-03-19T02:22:44","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T09:22:44","slug":"just-call-cryogenic-suicide-what-it-is-selfie-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/just-call-cryogenic-suicide-what-it-is-selfie-death","title":{"rendered":"Just Call Cryogenic Suicide What It Is: Selfie Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/just-call-cryogenic-suicide-what-it-is-selfie-death.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even if a client isn\u2019t fearful of death and doesn\u2019t buy into the preposterous idea that his consciousness can be revived (scientists aren\u2019t even close to figuring out how memories could possibly be preserved), having his brain preserved and uploaded as a \u201cprogram\u201d based on the idea that it is worth enough to have future generations maintain it, even interact with it, is the height of arrogance. It\u2019s a self-centered ethos that seeks attention and admiration even after death. Transhumanism involves faith in science, sure, but that\u2019s merely the means to the end.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Transhumanism is a religion of self, embedded with the doctrine of sola feels, all bundled into one medical procedure that literally ends your life.<\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/author\/georgi-boorman\/\" title=\"Posts by Georgi Boorman\" rel=\"author\">Georgi Boorman<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/just-call-cryogenic-suicide-what-it-is-selfie-death2.jpeg\" alt=\"Georgi Boorman\" height=\"110\" width=\"110\"><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2018\/03\/16\/just-call-cryogenic-suicide-what-it-is-selfie-death\/\">http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2018\/03\/16\/just-call-cryogenic-suic...fie-death\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if a client isn\u2019t fearful of death and doesn\u2019t buy into the preposterous idea that his consciousness can be revived (scientists aren\u2019t even close to figuring out how memories could possibly be preserved), having his brain preserved and uploaded as a \u201cprogram\u201d based on the idea that it is worth enough to have future [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}