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By: Taking lexapro and wellbutrin together.

Taking lexapro and wellbutrin together. — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:31:32 +0000

Lexapro….

Generic lexapro. Bipolar and lexapro. Lexapro night sweats. Lexapro. Lexapro medicine. Lexapro and alcohol….

By: Shannon Vyff

Shannon Vyff — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:28:54 +0000

Well, there are regular families who are part of the extreme life extension movement. There are liberals, sports enthusiasts, all manner of religious beliefs. These people also are signed up for cryonics, because there is a plausible chance it will work–certainly not for sure, but it is nice to have the opportunity, just in case. Many cryonicists eat healthy, support A.I. (not just Amnesty International, but the other–in hopes they can up-load someday), they even by 10 dollar tickets to the future from the time travel fund. It is all in the hopes they can see what our little rock in space, becomes in the future. All the while living engaging fulfilling lives, they like to have the backup ‘insurance’. Me? I’m off to parent my three young children, attend a sporting event then go to our Wednesday night church dinner… maybe I’ll get in a live-conversation about my cryonics arrangements or life extension advocacy, or maybe just what non-profits I support that are working to end inequality and death now instead of the ‘far future’. However the rest of my day plays out from posting this, I’ll have fun :-), feel I’ve done some good–and love life!

By: People Database Project Blog » Blog Archive » Popular Arguments For and Against Longevity

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 08:32:36 +0000

[...] Nor does it have to be a personal attack like this to undermine the validity of life extension as a legitimate pursuit. One can also suggest psychological instability or eccentricity underly the desire for extended life. Psychology Today recently put out an article about life extensionist Michael Anissimov [...]

By: IanC

IanC — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 22:57:33 +0000

Bob — I actually have to beg to differ with you on a few points in your statement

1) The mechanism necessary to ‘revive’ a cryonaut is at least conjectured, today. It could be possible as soon as 25 years from today; it is simply a matter of extrapolating either increased accuracy of MRI or other medical scanning technologies to provide for synaptic mapping, and then extrapolating Moore’s Law to provide for a platform sufficiently powerful to provide an operating substrate for the scanned mind of a cryonaut to operate within.

2) Future societies, being sufficiently technological to accomplish the above feat, would certainly be possessed of enough historians/archaeologists that the temptation of real-world personal subjective experience from their studied times would make such resurrections inevitable.

These are simple extrapolations, extremely uncontroversial in nature, from today’s society. In these terms it isn’t that great a leap of faith — and is certainly nowhere near on the order of religious beliefs.

By: Bob Mottram

Bob Mottram — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:31:13 +0000

At the present time I think the belief in cryogenic suspension is somewhat pseudo-scientific and more akin to religious belief.

There is no actual evidence which I know of which strongly indicates that a person who had died usually from natural causes, had their head removed, filled with antifreeze and then put into cold storage can at some future time be revived and live any kind of meaningful existence. Even if such technology becomes possible in the distant future there is also the question of whether whatever beings are around at that time would wish to expend resources upon reviving ancient cryonauts (there may be more pressing concerns to attend to).