I've just seen the website for an organisation called The Timeship that's trying to persuade people to sign up for after-death cryogenic freezing.
Which idea is, I feel, rather silly, not to mention scientifically dubious. There's a limit to the size of things you can freeze - which is why my mother would spend 3 hours once every 3 months turning a side of beef into constituent parts that could be frozen fast enough not to end up as slush when defrosted. (If the item's too big and you don't add all sorts of really toxic chemicals to speed the freezing, then ice-crystals form and destroy the cell walls. When defrosted, the haunch of beef becomes a slime of beef.)
And I reckon it's possible that after too long in the freezer, you're so covered with frost anyway that you'd be mistaken for the normal contents of the freezer.
So I propose a suggestion - name a famous person and the sort of frozen food you think they would be mistaken for.
My start:
Calista Flockhart the Popsicle
Brian Blessed the Sirloin
etc...
Your turn.
Which idea is, I feel, rather silly, not to mention scientifically dubious. There's a limit to the size of things you can freeze - which is why my mother would spend 3 hours once every 3 months turning a side of beef into constituent parts that could be frozen fast enough not to end up as slush when defrosted. (If the item's too big and you don't add all sorts of really toxic chemicals to speed the freezing, then ice-crystals form and destroy the cell walls. When defrosted, the haunch of beef becomes a slime of beef.)
And I reckon it's possible that after too long in the freezer, you're so covered with frost anyway that you'd be mistaken for the normal contents of the freezer.
So I propose a suggestion - name a famous person and the sort of frozen food you think they would be mistaken for.
My start:
Calista Flockhart the Popsicle
Brian Blessed the Sirloin
etc...
Your turn.
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Date: 2002-12-13 12:49 pm (UTC)No no no. It should be Paul McCartney, so that you could have Sir Loin Of Beef.
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Date: 2002-12-14 07:40 am (UTC)