Thanks again! I’d still prefer if this sentence were modified so that it doesn’t appear to be your thesis on first reading:
The idea that we could freeze someone today in such a way that future technology might be able to re-animate them is nothing more than wishful thinking on the desire to avoid death.
You could bracket it in a “skeptics claim X” the way a (good) journalist would, perhaps...
Thanks again! I’d still prefer if this sentence were modified so that it doesn’t appear to be your thesis on first reading:
You could bracket it in a “skeptics claim X” the way a (good) journalist would, perhaps...
I’ve replaced the full stop with a semicolon, to make it clearer that the “To its critics” opening covers that whole claim.