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Letter: If staying buried is hard to do...

Published 27 July 2016

From Gila Shoshany

Why ascribe benign motives to those who will defrost the “de-animated” (2 July, p 26)? I can easily imagine zoos where re-animated 21st-century “neuros” provide entertainment. My own claim to the future is to be staked by my genes. My time-travelling will be in honoured fashion as my children lay me securely – and permanently – in my grave.

Madison, Wisconsin, US

Issue no. 3084 published 30 July 2016

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