{"id":93167,"date":"2019-07-05T18:42:52","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T01:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/dj-maclennan-on-his-cryonics-book-frozen-to-life"},"modified":"2019-07-05T18:42:52","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T01:42:52","slug":"dj-maclennan-on-his-cryonics-book-frozen-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/dj-maclennan-on-his-cryonics-book-frozen-to-life","title":{"rendered":"DJ MacLennan on his Cryonics book \u201cFrozen to Life\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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To me cryonics just makes sense. It may not be pretty but, just like open heart surgery, it is one of those things that, without any guarantees, can possibly extend your life [very] substantially. Thus, especially given the alternative, I just can\u2019t quite make sense of the slow rate of adoption evident not only in North America but also across the world. And so I am always happy to discover new books that lay out the scientific argument for cryonics while making it easily digestible and giving it a very personal, human perspective. Since the most recent book, I thoroughly enjoyed on this topic was Frozen to Life: A Personal Mortality Experiment I thought that D.J. MacLennan<\/a> will make an excellent guest on my podcast. I was not wrong about that.<\/p>\n

During our 1 hour conversation with D.j. MacLennan<\/a> we cover a variety of interesting topics such as: why he decided to write Frozen to Life and who is it for; cryonics as a glass-state time travel; why he chose neuro- rather than full-body preservation; the costs and rate of adoption of cryonics; the culture, conservatism and geography of his home on the Isle of Skye; transhumanism and transcending limitations; the differences between Max More and James Hughes; his fear of death; the promise of chemical brain preservation; mindfulness and meditation; writing a transhumanist take on The Wizard of Oz and potentially on Grim\u2019s Fairy Tales\u2026<\/p>\n

As always you can listen to or download the audio file above or scroll down and watch the video interview in full. To show your support you can write a review on iTunes, make a direct donation or become a patron on Patreon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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