Review of Reviews: A Chip Off the Old Iceblock...Review of Reviews: A Chip Off the Old Iceblock...

“A Chip Off the Old Iceblock: How Cryopreservation Has Changed Estate Law, Why Attempts to Address the Issue Have Fallen Short, and How to Fix It,” 21 Cornell J.L. & Pub. Pol’y 347 (2012)

Woody Allen famously said, “I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.”

But since we must all leave this mortal coil, how does one achieve immortality? 

Socrates gave four arguments why the soul is immortal. Few bought his arguments back then, and they remain a tough sell today.

So how do mere mortals get a touch of immortality? By their good works that live on after them? Or did Shakespeare nail it? “The evil that men do, lives on after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.”

Can you achieve immort...