My father died ten years ago. As a cryonicist,I haven't recovered from that terrible tragedy yet. I have lost my father twice as far as I'm concerned. First to death itself, and then to the tomb.
HE'S GONE FOREVER!
IN MEMORY OF DAD
I have memories of you
Happy events of my childhood
Shrouded in fog
Dimmed by the years
As I remember you
I dissolve in tears
A proud man
Has been reduced to dust
What lies under the mud
It’s not my dad
He’s gone forever
And only lives in my mind
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My mother died, in a completely unexpected way, in December of 1969. I had never anticipated that there would not be a way to get her frozen. By then, I had begun to advocate that every relative of mine who was terminally ill contact the then-existing cryonics organizations. How could this have happened?
The answer was that without making prearrangements, at that time, nothing could be done. This is still, for all intents and purposes, the case. Those who have not made prearrangements don't get frozen, except in cases so remote and unusual, and with such compromise, that each such case is a lesson to us all.
The impact of this event shaped all that I've done since, to see that those I care about would not meet the same, tragic end. It took me into an entirely new partnership with another cryonicist within the next year (1970) and, so far, has been the driving force behind getting both my father (1976) and her mother (1989) into suspension.
This tragedy of the loss of my mother still drives my life. It will always be the root of my understanding that this is where the dividing line exists between existence and non-existence. For any who see this, the lesson is this: make prearrangements and bond with others who have done this, or ultimately, you will truly cease to exist.
Even then, the future is far from guaranteed. Who can say what will happen to the world in general, in the next century? Or decade? Or by next week? But, if you do not continue to exist, if the worst should happen for you personally, have you not (by default) accepted non-existence for yourself?
In this case, what meaning have you attributed to your own life? And, if you attribute no meaning to this, what meaning do you then attribute, to any other life, either?
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