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but I'd recommend it if you'd prefer not to die.

This appears to assume that your physical body will be enough for you to come back to 'life'.

What else do you think will be necessary?

A soul, if one exists.

Also, I understand that there is a school of thought that "you" are not only the physical body, but the ongoing electrical impulses in your mind. Reviving a brain that without its functional state might be akin to turning on a PC with no operating system installed.

Or a better anology. Your brain is (possibly) like ram and once you turn it off the data is whiped. So you'd need some thing like a hard drive to store the data on until the brain is powered up again and can be reloaded.

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