1 Put your life on ice

Cryonics (often mistakenly called cryogenics) is the art of sticking your gran in the freezer and hoping you can resuscitate her when the technology from Terminator 2: Judgment Day rolls around. The current bosses needless to say are in the US: Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Arizona. They've got 74 cryopreserved patients, each chilling out indefinitely at the bargain price of just $150,000.

2 Sow seeds for later life

You could carry on having children forever by becoming a regular sperm donor. Sperm banks store your man-milk in small vials or straws frozen in liquid nitrogen tanks. There is no shelf life on sperm and there have been cases of healthy babies being born from sperm stored for more than 20 years. Go to sperm-donors-worldwide.com to find out more.

3 Reach for the stars

Us humans live to about 80 if we're lucky. Stars stick around for an average of 10 billion years. For as little as $198 you can name a star after your good self and thus live on for a jolly long time. The good people at redballoon.com.au will happily take your cash.

4 Book your place in history

Write The Great Australian Novel and it (and your name) will be forever kept along with, at the latest count, the 2.7 million other books in the National Library of Australia.

As a legal deposit library, the library receives copies of all books produced in Australia. The Australian Writer's Marketplace (awmonline.com.au) will point you in the write direction.

5 Put some away for the future

You can now harvest some of your young collagen-rich skin cells - called fibroblasts - and have them grown in a Petri dish by eggheaded scientists for re-injection when they pull you out of the ice-box in the late 23rd century when, lets face it, you'll probably need them more than you do now. Go to isolagen.com to find out how.