Is cryonics worthwhile?

We wish to clarify that cryogenics, which deals with extremely low temperatures, has no connection with cryonics, the belief that a person’s body or body parts can be frozen at death, stored in a cryogenic vessel, and later brought back to life. We do NOT endorse this belief, and indeed find it untenable.

Personally, I'd really like to live forever - in the normal English sense of the phrase "live forever." I wish cryonics could realistically offer me that [instead of for example, brain emulations]. Unfortunately, the sophistry of its advocates leaves me pessimistic. If they had a ghost of a chance of giving me what I want, they wouldn't need to twist the English language.

But how desirable would cryonics or immortality in tiny steps be, even if they were possible? ... A human being of our vintage who finds himself digitized might no longer experience migraines or back pain, but he would encounter the kind of ache that comes from longing unfulfilled. This is quite a different scenario from religious resurrection, which promises a freedom from desire -- one of the essential components, sources say, of eternal bliss.

In conclusion, cryonics is a fruitless effort [to] evade certain death. But the argument over cryonics goes deeper than simply a desire ... it permeates the minds of thousands of individuals to the point where their fixation on it advances into the grounds of financial, philosophical, and scientific realms of argument. However, until reanimation has been achieved–if, indeed, the seemingly futile goal ever is achieved–cryonics will forever be regarded as a pseudoscience.