Tech or Trick: Cryonics, brain preservation and the weird science of cheating death
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Tech or Trick: Cryonics, brain preservation and the weird science of cheating death
Only $220,000 USD for the chance to be frozen and maybe, possibly brought back to life at some distant point in the future. Is it worth it? Would you want to come back (possibly as someone's science experiment)?
"Linda Chamberlain works just down the hallway from her husband. She walks past him every day. Occasionally she'll stop by to check in on him and say hello. The only problem is, Fred Chamberlain has been dead for eight years. Shortly after he was pronounced legally dead from prostate cancer, Fred was cryopreserved -- his body was filled with a medical-grade antifreeze, cooled to minus 196 degrees Celsius and carefully lowered into a giant vat of liquid nitrogen."
https://www.cnet.com/features/cryonics- ... ath-alcor/
"Linda Chamberlain works just down the hallway from her husband. She walks past him every day. Occasionally she'll stop by to check in on him and say hello. The only problem is, Fred Chamberlain has been dead for eight years. Shortly after he was pronounced legally dead from prostate cancer, Fred was cryopreserved -- his body was filled with a medical-grade antifreeze, cooled to minus 196 degrees Celsius and carefully lowered into a giant vat of liquid nitrogen."
https://www.cnet.com/features/cryonics- ... ath-alcor/
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Re: Tech or Trick: Cryonics, brain preservation and the weird science of cheating death
Here’s the bigger question. Let’s say in the distant future, there is a way to reverse cryopreservation and there is a cure for whatever caused them to go into cryo.
Why would people in the future spend the time, effort, and resources, to resuscitate people from the past and cure them of their disease?
I’m pretty sure there are bigger problems in the future than thawing people from the past, curing them of their disease, and making them new bodies.
Why would people in the future spend the time, effort, and resources, to resuscitate people from the past and cure them of their disease?
I’m pretty sure there are bigger problems in the future than thawing people from the past, curing them of their disease, and making them new bodies.
Re: Tech or Trick: Cryonics, brain preservation and the weird science of cheating death
It won't work. The rich and powerful fucks who don't want to accept their own mortality will end up like all the other rich and powerful fucks before them - they will die. And that's a good thing.
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Re: Tech or Trick: Cryonics, brain preservation and the weird science of cheating death
I wouldn't mind being frozen and thawed out in a few hundred years, just for shits and giggles
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Re: Tech or Trick: Cryonics, brain preservation and the weird science of cheating death
I have difficulty going from Cambodia to the UK.Jerry Atrick wrote: ↑Fri Nov 06, 2020 12:56 pm I wouldn't mind being frozen and thawed out in a few hundred years, just for shits and giggles
I’ve barely left immigration and rejoined a modern progressive western country before the hairs on the back of my neck start agitating. Waking up in several hundred years? I’d need a few guarantees.
That said- if they could re-sleeve me as in Altered Carbon....
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Re: Tech or Trick: Cryonics, brain preservation and the weird science of cheating death
Even if being resurrected in a few hundred years was even remotely possible, the risks seem to far outweigh the rewards.
You'd be under the control of whoever woke you up, and there's no telling if they're going to be "good" or "bad."
Whatever wealth, prestige, education you had back in your day would be primitive or even laughable to the people of the future.
You'd be under the control of whoever woke you up, and there's no telling if they're going to be "good" or "bad."
Whatever wealth, prestige, education you had back in your day would be primitive or even laughable to the people of the future.
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Re: Tech or Trick: Cryonics, brain preservation and the weird science of cheating death
The rich and powerful being preserved now are basically penniless in the future. Depending on the charity of future rich and powerful to resuscitate them, and then cure them. It’s even worse for those poor rich who only have their heads frozen, who will need new bodies made for them.
And what’s the advantage for people in the future to do this? Maybe bring back 1-2 for archeologic anthropology curiosity. Otherwise, people from hundreds of years ago are completely unequipped to deal with current modern life and would require a long period of adjustment and retraining just to function and contribute.
And what’s the advantage for people in the future to do this? Maybe bring back 1-2 for archeologic anthropology curiosity. Otherwise, people from hundreds of years ago are completely unequipped to deal with current modern life and would require a long period of adjustment and retraining just to function and contribute.
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