cryogenics

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Cryopreservation (part 3) – who would pay for the revival?

Fleur @Fleura (34927) • United Kingdom 29 Mar 23

On top of all the practical complications, the dead person is paying for long-term cold storage but as far as I understand it this cost doesn’t cover the costs of trying to revive the person in future, so if this were to happen...

cryopreservation

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How the Rich Spend Their Money

cmoneyspinner @cmoneyspinner (9218) • Austin, Texas 20 Jan 20

This article writer says the rich spend their “money on vacations, entertainment and collectibles”. Uh huh. Well I guess the comedian Chris Rock was right. There must be a difference between between being rich and being...

rich versus wealthy

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She lost her head and her family wants it back!

laglen @laglen (19759) • United States 21 Feb 10

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado — A Colorado family and an Arizona nonprofit are fighting in court over who gets the head of a woman who died this month, along with a $50,000 annuity she left behind. At issue is whether...

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I don't want a prison in my backyard - can we freeze criminals for 50 years?

mommyboo @mommyboo (13174) • United States 2 Nov 08

I got this idea from watching Demolition Man again - which takes place apparently in 1996. I don't think we have the capacity to cryogenically freeze folks and then thaw them out but I bet anything if we do some research in this...

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Would you agree to freeze your body if you find out you can live again?

Jenaisle @Jenaisle (16568) • Philippines 21 Aug 08

Cryogenics is still in its infancy and phase of experimentation. But let's assume that in the near future it will be proven that it can be utilized effectively, would you agree to freeze your body no matter how old you are when...

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Human Cryogenics is Freezing the Body for Future Thawing. Your Take On This?

Jenaisle @Jenaisle (16568) • Philippines 10 Aug 08

Scientists and persons in different related fields are looking into the possibility of freezing a body to preserve it and then thawing it in the future to revive it again for treatment. This procedure is supposed to be used by...

Lucid Dreams and Life Extension...

kalmontague @kalmontague (55) • Philippines 26 Apr 08

After watching Vanilla Sky (starring Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruz), I have been wishing that the plans for Lucid Dream was true. It would be great to drift off to your fantasies made true to life and not worrying about a damn...

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The Final Decision

cmm2020 @cmm2020 (63) • United States 20 Apr 08

If you were to choose Cryogenics for your after death arrangements, would you choose to have just your head frozen with hopes of being placed on a better body in the future than you have now..or..would you just go for broke and...

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Are you dying to freeze?

elizabethbathory @elizabethbathory (1132) • United States 19 Apr 07

The cryopreservation of human beings has always fascinated me. It raises so many questions: What would it be like to "fall asleep" and wake up years later, after every human being that was living on the planet while you were...

non profit organization

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Cryogenics

stacyv81 @stacyv81 (5903) • United States 25 Mar 07

What do you think of cryogenics? Would you like to have your body frozen, so that you could be thawed out and brought back to life sometime in the future? Do you think it will ever be possible?

many are cold, but few are frozen

ESKARENA1 @ESKARENA1 (18260) 24 Feb 07

Will cryogenics ever be a viable reality, or is it just the rich trying to cling on to their life? Is it true that only Walt Disneys head has been frozen?

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CRYOGENICS....What happens next?

AskAlly @AskAlly (3625) • Canada 22 Jan 07

I just read a blurb that a tv show is soon going to be aired about a woman with cancer that wants to be cryogenically frozen. If in the future medical science finds a cure for cancer, will they be able to ressurect...

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Want to be in the next century and beyond? alive and still kicking

RAMPersona @RAMPersona (2033) • Philippines 17 Dec 06

Do you know that there is a cryogenics lab in the US that actually put their sick clients inside capsules, freeze them like suspended animation in state of hibernation. waking them up after a cure is discovered to their...

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