When I'm called, I'm ready to go. . . . We have to step aside for our children. We shouldn't impose ourselves on posterity. . . . Trying to hang on beyond our natural span is undignified and cowardly. . . . Birth, growth, and death form a natural and necessary cycle. . . .
Fear of death is a sign of immaturity.
If this is true, then without the freezer program there may be no posterity. In that case, our descendants need it as much as we do. When someone continues to insist that he would not want unlimited life, he is often wearing a mask which can be lifted by putting the question just a little differently. He can hardly claim he would. He is not likely to say he would, nor would he refuse a perfected immortality serum.