Life of a cryonicist

2008-01-22T15:28:00.000-08:00

2006-06-10T16:45:00.000-07:00

TALKING CRYONICS

Did you ever want to go to a time in the future after your own death?
Cryonics is thought to be science fiction by some people. Imagine yourself five hundred years from now, in a very different world. Cars will fly in cities where the streets have been turned into immense parks. Money might have finished and no one in the world will die at all.
You will live for as long as you want to, and when you’re tired of life, you'll be placed in a tank.

We all have to die at the moment. No one is safe from death. Whether you’re young or old, poor or rich, black or white, intelligent or dumb, you have to die.
I don’t want to be placed in a coffin where I’ll decompose or to be burned to cinders. Cryonics might take me to that future where death has been vanquished. If I don’t wake up at all and cryonics fails, I stay dead. Just like the rest of you.

2006-06-08T08:49:00.000-07:00

FEAR

I wonder how it must feel
To look at the world for a last time
Before you’re all alone
In front of fear

As you shut your eyes
And float towards the abyss
What will your last thoughts be
Imagine oblivion

Drifting towards non existence
And seeing nothing
As you move into the void
Emptiness greets you

At that moment
When you stop being yourself
And turn into the universe
Called death

2006-05-19T18:12:00.000-07:00

A DREAM

A calm sea shines under a full moon
Showing the view

Of a peaceful beach
Amidst utopia

As a wave hurtles
Towards the shore

Threatening to engulf me
Into chaos

I wish it to stop
And it’s Motionless in an instant

Weird in my vision
I can’t be sure whether it’s reality

Or if it exists alongside my fears
I’m thankful for this gift of freezing time

To save my life
Lost in the cosmos

Then consciousness
Threatens to sweep away sleep

And throws me
Towards a bluish sea of reality

While the morning sun
Awakes my senses

As I open my eyes
I remember that frozen second

Of eternity
Thrown into uncertainty

2006-05-07T17:36:00.000-07:00

2006-05-07T03:35:00.000-07:00

SACRILEGE

Whatever is true
Whatever is right
You receive it from me

Peace will reign
In this life
If you listen to my words and obey

My commands
As they’re pure
Noble and trustworthy

Because I’m the light
And guidance
Without me

The birds will cease to sing
And chaos will reign
On earth

Come to my kingdom
Of light
And you’ll get deliverance

To fight a mortal legacy
Inherited from our ancestors
In the Garden of Eden

I make the world turn
Even if I don’t exist
And my words are sacrilegious

2006-04-03T11:01:00.000-07:00

MY CHOICE

I want my body in ice
Where it’ll survive harshness

In a bed of cold liquid
It will last

Up to the end of time
Enshrouded in freshness

Far from cremation
And the tomb

There is no heaven
Hell stays a legend

The future for me
Lies in the frost

While others decompose
Becoming bones

Turning into dust
Back to the earth

Time will tell
Whether I’ll survive

Cocooned in ice
Marooned in age

SURVEY
What do you want to happen to your body after you die?

1: Do you want to be cremated?
2: Do you want to be buried?
3: Do you want to be frozen?

You must explain why you are doing it.

2006-04-03T10:08:00.000-07:00

SAVING HENRY

Henry is a dummy
With plastic skin
And placid eyes

At five thirty he died
By five thirty one
He was lifted onto the ice bath

We didn’t want to send him
To dummy heaven
If it ever existed

We did compressions
Put his head in ice
And an IV line in his arm

Medications went in
Flowing through his blood
And stopped free radicals

Ice bags around his body
Kept the temperature down
While oxygen

Went into his lungs
Saving the brain
Keeping grey matter fresh

2006-03-04T16:52:00.000-08:00

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

2006-02-19T13:39:00.000-08:00

DEATH
I have ran away
Through the infinite sea
From your realm of darkness
With you in pursuit

I believed you once
Now I want revenge
For the rising pain
And my failed emotions

You promised me eternal love
On the tombstone of life
With a false emerald ring
And a coffin full of harm

I’ve flown through time
While you chased me
Hot tears of emotions
Running down my face

I trusted you long ago
Now I want my freedom
Your kingdom of darkness
Has to end for my soul

Your time has come
I don’t love you at all
Let me be on my own
Far from your world

2006-02-18T06:23:00.000-08:00

IMMORTALITY

I dreamt of immortality
As a tiny child
Scared of death
Loving life

My wish not to die
Took me away
To many corners
Of the world

The thought of eternity
Drew me towards science
Endless deities
Calling for my soul

I wished to be
A common god
Living in heaven
Forever and ever

Of the immortal beings
Inhabiting legends
I envied their longevity
And unending lives

You might wonder
Whether not dying
Has been a dream
For a fleeting soul

I’ve found a solution
To my love of life
And peace of mind
For my poor heart

Freeze my body
Keep it fresh
It won’t decay
Within a tank

Through the eons
Time might find me
Undying eyes
Looking at the world

2006-01-28T16:08:00.000-08:00

FAREWELL TO YOU ALL

One day
When I reach life's end
I’ll have this to say
To anyone who cares

This is a farewell to you all
Beyond me lies eternity
And after that
Who knows?

The journey should be hard
Nothing is easy
And this is a send-off
To all the world

My body will float in coldness
Organs won’t decay
Soul won’t sink
Brain will remain

This ship won’t flounder
It might reach eternity
While the rest is history
I will live on

Farewell cruel world
Hello distant future
Beyond the port of death
I’ll come back to existence

2006-01-27T05:45:00.001-08:00

SPACE AND TIME

Within space and time
Galaxies float in ether
shining across the eons
And thrashing in a soup of gas

Magnificent nebulas scatter around
Crawling across the distances
As hazy bands of infinity
While stars erupt in a sea of protons

Red giants envelop solar systems
Their pregnant bellies scattering atomic particles
As rings of gas expand forever
Life is born from their seeds

Beyond the universe's infinite bounds
Another one exists
Galaxies fill an alien sky
Ringed planets go around hot suns

A replica of me stares at the heavens
Anti matter eyes rejoicing in the spectacle
Of milliards of suns
In a soup of gas and dust

2006-01-27T05:45:00.000-08:00

ODE TO CRYONICS

I want to see the future
Rolling down the ages
And nurturing the universe
Along with my dreams

Let me awaken
In a new millennium
When thoughts of death
Belong to the past

I might stand here
In a few hundred years
Memories of a past life
In my new brain

Hurrah to cryonics
Thumbs up for immortality
Living forever rules
Death is my foe

2006-01-07T11:46:00.000-08:00

MY THOUGHTS ABOUT DEATH
As a small child, I prayed in my bed to live forever while my father looked at me from a half open door. The hate of death pursued me during my childhood and teenage years. Then in 1967 I saw an article in Life Magazine about the first man that had been frozen in the USA. I was fifteen years old, but haunted by the thought of this man drifting through time while in suspended animation. He was called James Bedford and as I looked at the cryostasts where he was kept, I wanted my body to be frozen after my death. We lived in Palmira, a town in southern Colombia, and the idea of having my body cryonically preserved sounded like science fiction to my family.
My mother shook her head. “Who would like to live again?”
This life was hard and full of pain, and Cryonics was for people who had a lot of money. I tried to forget about my dreams of immortality, as I finished my education and started college in the city of Cali.
I went to England a few years later to work as an Au-Pair. I still thought cryonics was for millionaires like my mother had said. Then I married and had children. I taught them to enjoy this life because once you die, you never come back. I didn’t think in Cryonics again.
One day I read an amazing article in a woman’s magazine. A couple had arranged to have their bodies preserved. They had paid the full cost of the procedure with a life insurance. My dreams of living forever came back to my mind as I read the story, and I decided to do it. The children were small but I wanted to take them to the future.
I had divorced my husband by then and my family thought I had lost my mind.
My father, a doctor in Palmira, was still alive and thought the idea was pure science fiction.
“You have a good imagination,” he said. “Cryonics is for millionaires.”
I thought he was wrong. I had to get a life insurance, and the bank would pay the American company after my death. Immortality was for everybody and not just for the very rich. I have a life insurance now and have arranged for some of my children to be frozen after death.
People are not frozen in liquid nitrogen anymore. They are vitrified. Vitrification is a glass solution at very low temperatures. It doesn’t damage the cells as much as liquid nitrogen does. I hope that by the time we die the procedure will have advanced a lot more and we’ll wake up in the future with most of our memories and personality.