Is it normal to think this?

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Ok, just a few weeks ago I signed up for cryopreservation, I am 25. This gave me a few interesting thoughts about how I may wake up after many years in sleep. I sometimes imagine myself waking up from and automatic timer capsule far into the future with a prosthetic body, upon awakening I find out that I am the only living thing left on the planet destined to roam on it for eternity. I imagine myself walking through the charred remains of civilisation, looking through record logs of what humanity used to be. I see myself questioning whether or not I would even be considered human any more because my replaced body. I see myself collecting the remains of advanced technology left behind, rebuilding it only so that I may get off the planet. I feel as though I subsist in somewhat of a quandary. I am confounded in my search for a real meaning of existence. I imagine myself dying alone on a cold isolated planet light-years away, my existence being as small as a mere infinitesimal speck of sand in the infinite expanse of the universe. I truly feel as though I might end up like this.

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  • lease
    12 years ago

    It really would make for a cool book. With Amazon's book publishing services, you can do it for next-to-nothing $$.

    I, personally, wouldn't latch onto the idea until they've proven the ability to bring someone back - but a LOT can happen in a lifetime. Fifty years ago, people would have doubted the ability to grow parts from stem cells...or to see the advances made in neurology. At the rate we've come in a couple decades, I fully expect to see some anti-gravity cars, public space travel - and I can't wait for some holographic computer/TV advancements.

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  • EpicSama
    13 years ago

    Everybody is afraid of isolation. Also, you've got an amazing imagination and I would love to read it as a book.

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  • schumacher
    14 years ago

    Write a book, name me the editor, find a publisher, publish that shit, give me profits, and then we'll freeze you in the cryo sleep.

    totally normal.

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  • PoisonFlowers
    14 years ago

    Now that would make a good story. Are you a good writer?

    Apart from the prosthetic body and the charred remains of civilisation, that sounds like a metaphor for every single one of us.

    Who knows? It really could end up like that...

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    • Thelastone
      14 years ago

      I am not excessive in my writing but occasionally I do write some pieces of science-fiction literature.

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      • TrippleDPR
        13 years ago

        you are basically employing a combination of existentialist and personal identity philosophy here. If this situation ever becomes true, then i would say you have been given the greatest gift anyone can recieve, but that is only due to my beliefs of what an ideal state of living would be. For me it would be complete isolation from humans and the freedom to roam all teh earth to restore and preserve it, and to gain all knowledge of all things. You have decsribed my ideal Utopia and i hope for my sake and the life of all other living things that you have been dreaming my future...

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