Last week the pop mogul Simon Cowell announced he will have his body frozen when he dies, hoping that in the future medical science will be able to revive him.
Leaving aside the egotism of the man and the scientific practicalities of the revival operation, this makes for depressing thoughts for us mere mortals, ordinary people without the means available to Cowell and the other very wealthy people on the planet.
Up until now we thought that despite the inequalities of life, the disparity of life's possibilities between the rich and the poor majority, at least in death we would be equal. There would be way to cheat such a certainty, and all that inequality would then mean nought. Now the rich and famous can possibly live on and on, while we are dead and gone. And our children will have to suffer such people for eternity.
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