(December 27, 2015 at 12:35 pm)Mr.wizard Wrote:(December 27, 2015 at 12:30 pm)excitedpenguin Wrote: Why not preserve her body though, in case medicine advances and will be able to bring her back in the future?
Because then you have to extend that option to everyone, where will put all of these dead people hooked up to machines and how will we pay for it? Also right now there is no suggestion that once the brain dies that we can bring it back again.
Well you can pay for your body to be preserved by way of cryonics nowadays.