cryonics

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Would you want to be frozen and thawed out some years later?

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381904) • Rockingham, Australia 23 May 24

The photo has nothing to do with the post. Hitting our news a couple of days ago was the fact that Australia’s first known cryonics facility has just deep frozen its first client, a man in his 80s. The client died on May 12 in a...

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Cryopreservation (part 5) – how would you live?

Fleur @Fleura (34943) • United Kingdom 5 Apr 23

When a person comes into the world as a baby, they have parents or other adults to care for them. Over the next 18 years or so those carers provide everything the new person needs and teach them about how to get along in the...

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Cryopreservation (part 4) – who would revive you and why?

Fleur @Fleura (34943) • United Kingdom 1 Apr 23

So let’s assume you did decide that getting your body frozen would be a good idea. Maybe you have some disease which is currently incurable and means you die relatively young, like in your 40s, but you hope that in a few more...

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Cryopreservation (part 2) – who could you trust?

Fleur @Fleura (34943) • United Kingdom 28 Mar 23

Of course the prospect of cryopreservation raises a literally endless list of questions. If you choose to freeze your body after death, how long will the company keep your body frozen? How will you even know if they don’t keep...

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Cryopreservation (part 1) – a new industry

Fleur @Fleura (34943) • United Kingdom 27 Mar 23

I read a post a few days ago by @noni1959 about cryonics: and in reply I said that I had so many thoughts about this subject there was far too much to put in one response, so I promised to write some posts, in fact a whole...

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Would You Consider Cryonics if you Could Afford It?

Loretta @noni1959 (13017) • United States 22 Mar 23

I watched a movie on Netflix called, "Hope Frozen: A Quest to Live Twice. I've heard about people wanting to "freeze" their bodies but I didn't know there was a lab in the US that has frozen the bodies and heads of 200 people to...

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The Alcor Life Extension Foundation

celticeagle @celticeagle (189820) • Boise, Idaho 7 Sep 18

Alcor was founded in 1972 by Fred and Linda Chamberlain. It was founded in the hope of preserving humans to be restored later when technology has advanced to such a state that the body can be restored to full physical and mental...

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I wonder if they can really revive people who undergo cryonics

Your Highness Emperor Albert Whisker @CaptAlbertWhisker (32760) • Calgary, Alberta 18 Jan 11

Cryonics is basically a process were a person who have a incurable disease gets frozen by a freezing machine and he will be frozen there until the technology to cure his sickness and the technology to revive him is already...

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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...

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Head Cold

no name @Zmugzy (773) 16 Mar 07

There are some people in America who pay huge somes of money to have there head frozen and preserved when they die. This is part of the emerging technology of Cryonics. Cryopreserving humans is carried out with the hope that in...

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Cremation?Burial? When you die, would you opt for cryonics?

erised @erised (18) • Philippines 26 Feb 07

Let's say that you have the means to have one, would you choose it? Cryonics, according to wikipedia, is the "the practice of cryopreserving humans or animals that can no longer be sustained by contemporary medicine until...

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