Thomas Booth

Distressed and agitated, an old man turns restlessly in his hospital bed. His mind and body struggles to stay still as he battles ferociously with the fact that very shortly he will pass away. The nurses in the ward are visibly concerned, watching a patient they have cared for for so long slowly die in anguish. Then a man walks in. Equipped only with a levered harp, he sits bedside to the old man. Grabbing the old man’s hand with one hand and elegantly plucking harp strings with the other.

Whether we like it or not, we have all been thrown into the long and winding expedition of existence. An expedition is typically praised for granting fond memories, creating close friendships, and providing the intoxicating experience of love. However, this journey also exposes us to the inevitability and unavoidability of pain and suffering, and the anxiety of one day leaving it all behind.

From the depths of science fiction, cryonics presents the individual with an opportunity to cheat death and awaken in a technologically advanced future. Tim Gibson, CEO of Cryonics UK, outlines how his company operates and what his vision of the future of mortality will be. In sci-fi space movies such as Interstellar or Passenger, astronauts are frozen in hibernation as a means of surviving extremely long journeys through space.