Immortality is perhaps the most demanded desire of humanity, from the moment this humanity has realized itself. At the same time, it is also believed that as soon as immortality is achieved by someone, so immediately this lucky man will be equal to God. And for such a case, by hook or by crook, they strive to preserve their body. Here and freezing, and mummification, and even like Dashi-Dorzho Itigelov (it is difficult to unambiguously determine his condition). In fairness, I would like to hope that the state of the latter is just a side effect of immersion in deep meditation. Not to mention the practice of oriental monks, who take poisonous mummifying drugs for a long time so that their bodies do not decompose with death. And, besides the fact that hardly one out of 10 users of this suicidal method became such "incorruptible",the purpose of such an event is also incomprehensible, because no one says that these people are going into meditation. Of course, the increase in life expectancy with the possibility of preserving youth is a very worthy occupation, but the desire to make incorruptible relics out of the body without preserving reason is, at least, unreasonable. And even if in the future there will be an opportunity not only to "unfreeze" the individual, but also to return him to health and youth (after all, no one in his right mind and firm memory, at a young age and quite healthy for himself, does not freeze), then here too many questions arise. There was such a short story: a man was unfrozen in the distant future. Next to him was another, who talked to him very anxiously, answering the questions of the “unfrozen”. And exactly until the momentwhen something in his account of the current situation did not disturb this "unfrozen". The narrator began to calm the "lively" one, motivating it by the fact that the heart must be protected. To which he, even more agitated, asked, what was wrong with his heart? In response, I heard: - "Everything is fine with your heart, but not with mine." Count on grateful descendants? In the Azerbaijani language, descendants are very characteristic and capaciously named: children are children, grandchildren are grandchildren, but great-grandchildren are natizhda, which translates as a result, or the result, great-great-grandchildren - kyotija, roughly translated as a root, but great-great-grandchildren are itija, already lost … That is, by the fifth generation, your relationship becomes a big question. And this is in 80-100 years.that the heart must be protected. To which he, even more agitated, asked, what was wrong with his heart? In response, I heard: - "Everything is fine with your heart, but not with mine." Count on grateful descendants? In the Azerbaijani language, descendants are very characteristic and capaciously named: children are children, grandchildren are grandchildren, but great-grandchildren are natizhda, which translates as a result, or the result, great-great-grandchildren - kyotija, roughly translated as a root, but great-great-grandchildren are itija, already lost … That is, by the fifth generation, your relationship becomes a big question. And this is in 80-100 years.that the heart must be protected. To which he, even more agitated, asked, what was wrong with his heart? In response, I heard: - "Everything is fine with your heart, but not with mine." Count on grateful descendants? In the Azerbaijani language, descendants are very characteristic and capaciously named: children are children, grandchildren are grandchildren, but great-grandchildren are natizhda, which translates as a result, or the result, great-great-grandchildren - kyotija, roughly translated as a root, but great-great-grandchildren are itija, already lost … That is, by the fifth generation, your relationship becomes a big question. And this is in 80-100 years. Count on grateful descendants? In the Azerbaijani language, descendants are very characteristic and capaciously named: children are children, grandchildren are grandchildren, but great-grandchildren are natizhda, which translates as a result, or the result, great-great-grandchildren - kyotija, roughly translated as a root, but great-great-grandchildren are itija, already lost … That is, by the fifth generation, your relationship becomes a big question. And this is in 80-100 years. Count on grateful descendants? In the Azerbaijani language, descendants are very characteristic and capaciously named: children are children, grandchildren are grandchildren, but great-grandchildren are natizhda, which translates as a result, or the result, great-great-grandchildren - kyotija, roughly translated as a root, but great-great-grandchildren are itija, already lost … That is, by the fifth generation, your relationship becomes a big question. And this is in 80-100 years.
Sometimes very revealing quirks happen: an adherent of Islam (not an Arab, therefore, who did not read the Koran) was outraged that her elderly brother had a leg amputated, motivating her dissatisfaction with the fact that her brother would be buried without a leg in the future, and this supposedly goes contrary to Islam. Moreover, her conviction was so great that when her disabled son could have been saved by the amputation of a hand, the family refused the operation. Although the Qur'an even contains a verse (Holy Qur'an, 2: 260), in which Abraham is invited to dismember the birds and carry them to the mountains, and Allah will resurrect them. And at the same time, those who doubt the ability of Allah to resurrect from decay are in for eternal torment. One might think that the guardians for the integrity of the corpse are relying on the Egyptian priests, who probably knew something, since they so carefully mummified everyone and everything. Although since in Ancient Egypt the brain was first sucked out of the deceased body, it would be logical to assume that the personality was not preserved in any way.
In Christianity, dismemberment is somehow simpler, although, probably, neither Vladimir Ilyich Lenin himself - the relics of communism, nor those people whose body parts are scattered around cathedrals, monasteries and churches (there is a lot of doubt about their belonging to the declared saints) should be particularly pleased with the way in which descendants and followers disposed of their remains.
And with endless life and youth it turns out not very rosy. As it turned out, a person does not forget anything in life. With age, it simply becomes more difficult for him to remember or extract information from memory cells. And the brain is also finite, in the sense that its volume is limited. Therefore, it will be necessary for people who still manage to live long enough to introduce external memory drives and not only memory, but let's say, an additional operating system that can cope with an already huge amount of information. In addition to the fact that this system will have to cooperate with the person to whom it will be introduced, it must also be self-developing, otherwise sclerosis will become inevitable over time. And then the system will turn into artificial intelligence (AI), and then it will be unclear who is serving whom: AI is a person,or a human will become an AI appendage. Also, you know, that is still a prospect.
Now let's talk a little about the number of angels at the tip of the needle. No less than about immortality, humanity dreamed of finding out what awaits it there, beyond the line of life. In each formation, people in the amount of their knowledge tried to imagine what would happen after their death. Actually, even now we cannot answer the question of how many angels fit on the tip of the needle, and not only because it is unclear why the angels would need to squeeze on this tip, but also because we do not know the metric of the afterlife … Therefore, until now, in all religions, it is presented as a kind of analogy of our space. And almost all of its inhabitants have an anthropomorphic appearance to one degree or another. Although Xenophanes as early as the 6th century BC noted that it is people who represent the gods in their own image and likeness, and not vice versa. And that's truebecause the human body is adapted to live only on terrestrial planets, with gravity close to ours, in the presence of a certain temperature range, there should also be water, food and light, including. Astronauts flying in zero gravity are constantly losing calcium from their bones. If humanity sends a colony on a flight on a ship without artificial gravity, then with a sufficiently long flight, after several generations, people will be born in the form of balls without legs with thin handles. On planets with too much gravity, people will be reborn into some kind of pyramids or hemispheres (on wheels or with many legs). This is, of course, a hyperbole, but tell me why angels, demons, genies and in general all celestials need legs, if they at least fly, and at most they instantly move, and bellies,if they don't eat earthly food? Yes, it may be a property of the human psyche that people see something unearthly in a human-like image, because in the photographs, for the most part, when some anomalies are removed, only formless spots appear. And then a very seditious question arises: why do all religious confessions promise a person after death the return of his mortal body? For example, if a person goes to hell, then his body is very much needed there: it can be cut, burned, chewed and mocked in every way, causing pain. But in paradise? At what age will the body be rebuilt? Will the unhappy children who died in infancy be forever foolish children? And the old people? And then, if the digestive system remains, then in paradise it will be necessary to kill living things for nutrition (it does not matter,animals or plants)? If you don't need to consume food, then why do you need a stomach - this wineskin with intestines?
The author does not at all intend to promote atheism, because he is very reverent and respectful of religion, understanding its necessity. But asking questions doesn't mean disbelieving.