Reading my local newspaper this Monday morning I see that the weather is due to get a lot colder this week, with temperatures plummeting to minus 25 before next weekend.

Already a rather refreshing -8, I discovered this is only 188 degrees warmer than the liquid nitrogen used to preserve ‘residents’ at The Alcor Life Extension Foundation – a self-proclaimed world leader in cryonics, cryonics research and cryonics technology.

For a mere $125,000 you can have your entire body frozen solid and your biological clock stopped in the hope that future technologies will be able to defrost and revive you. If you’re a bit tight on money you can always go for the budget option, which is to have just your head frozen. Apparently ‘future you’ won’t ever want to play the guitar or go shoe shopping.

Personally I’m planning on spending my money on warmer and more fun things, like beer, while I’m still alive. If I ever feel the need to preserve my body for future generations I’ll just take all my clothes  off and step outside.

On that rather disturbing note, it’s day 14 of BeerSweden’s Advent Beer Calendar 2009!