Tom DeLay, you WILL take care of my cryonics preservation, won't you?

Tom, I know you might not be in the House forever, but if I happen to "die" while you're still there, can I count on you to guard my right to federally funded preservation in liquid nitrogen by the Alcor Life Extension Foundation or equivalent? As Alcor's home page eloquently puts it: "Cryonics is an attempt to preserve and protect the gift of human life. The purpose of cryonics is to maintain life, not reverse death. Lack of legal status as a person does not imply lack of moral status as a person."

The problem is, my wife loves me, but I'm not sure I can trust her to contact Alcor and get me in that vat right away. But I know I can trust you!

Tom, I know you couldn't sleep at night if I were, let's say, sliced in half by a freight train with my skull perfectly intact, and not immediately transferred to cold storage so that in fifty or a hundred or two hundred years medical technology will be able to restore a reasonable facsimile of me to my loving family. Or at least to my loving great-great-grandchildren. I'm pleased as punch that you're pro-life, and since I don't want to die, I'm glad you'll step in to help me. (I thought about asking God, but to the best of my knowledge he hasn't been in this business since he helped out Elijah.)

Thanks a bunch, Tom!

my dog was hit by a car last week. Tom, I know that you'll champion the funds necessary to have my 'best friend' cryogenically preserved until such a time as we can clone him and re-implant his memories of my family.

Very funny post.
(unless you really mean it...)

When are these guys going to champion the type of stem-cell research that could save people that actually DO have vestiges of real consciousness?

Hypocrites.