Fight Aging!

From Depressed Metabolism: "the author argues that 'the continuing fact of death renders all talk of liberty ultimately futile.' The author further argues that our concern for the future will diminish as we approach death. But instead of facing the enemy, we devise all kinds of defensive strategies. Life extensionists often speak disparagingly of such coping mechanisms. But [one] can hardly blame people for trying to live in peace with the inevitable. Raging at the prospect of death, if no rational means can be imagined to overcome or delay it during our lifetime is foolish and unproductive. But as Herbert Marcuse said, there is a difference between accepting death and elevating it to something that gives meaning to life. ... Historically, the delay between the technical ability to place a person in low subzero temperatures to avoid decomposition and its actual implementation was not excessive at all. Perhaps the biggest technical obstacle to broader acceptance of cryonics is that most people still believe that the inability of the human body to sustain itself as an integrated organism must necessarily mean the end of the person as well." Which isn't the case, even now. Death is not destruction - at least not until the fine structures of the brain decay. That is why cryonics has a good chance of success: there is all the time in the world to wait in low temperature storage for medical science to become capable of restoring a damaged but intact person to life.

Link: http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2008/10/06/liberty-and-oblivion/