Would You Consider Cryonics if you Could Afford It?
By Loretta
@noni1959 (10037)
United States
March 22, 2023 12:15am CST
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 be brought to life in the future.
I looked up articles and one such article (Jan 25, 2022, U.S.Sun), talks about the Alcor Life Extension Foundation, located in Scottsdale, Arizona, their process, price and concerns.
Alcor will freeze for centuries a whole body for $200,000 or the head and brain for $80,000. It has to be done within minutes, preferably within 60 seconds according to the movie.
The bodies are slowly lowered in temperature, and packed into giant containers of liquid nitrogen at about -196 C. Usually, the body is packed in ice and frozen before the blood is replaced with a solution.
No electricity is needed since liquid nitrogen is frozen.
The movie talked about Matheryn Naovaratpong "Einz" who died of cancer. When the family realized there was no hope, her father began researching cryonics. The family was against it at first but months later, he talked them into it.
Right now, there is no way to resuscitate. My question, how do you resuscitate a body if it's just a head or just a brain? Wouldn't there be damage from being frozen for decades? Wouldn't it be like when you get freezer burnt meat? It's claimed the process prevents this but does it really?
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12 responses
@DaddyEvil (126771)
• United States
22 Mar
The question you should be asking is why would people in the future care about bringing back and curing someone from our time? The Earth will be even more crowded than it is now. Anyone "brought back" will be hopelessly under-educated to earn a living in the future...
The people who thought this cryonics up are giggling behind their hands all the way to the bank.
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@noni1959 (10037)
• United States
22 Mar
@DaddyEvil Yes, I do. It's been happening already in many ways so wouldn't surprise and thankfully I won't be alive to see it.
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@DaddyEvil (126771)
• United States
22 Mar
@Fleura Exactly... See how many more suckers you can trick into paying you to throw their relatives' bodies away.
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@allen0187 (58257)
• Philippines
22 Mar
Sounds interesting.
No opinion if I want to be 'frozen' but top of my head, it will be a no for me.
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@allen0187 (58257)
• Philippines
22 Mar
@noni1959 same.
Will be donating my organs.
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@noni1959 (10037)
• United States
22 Mar
@allen0187 I have Science Care taking me. No cost. It's just my shell anyway. If they can use me to figure out something or teach medical students, great.
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@noni1959 (10037)
• United States
22 Mar
I feel the same way. Say in 200 years, the bodies/heads were still being watched, the world was still going, and they figured out how to revive a body. How is that person going to respond? Do they have to learn again from baby hood? All memories are gone? Will they be like zombies? If they have memories, how will they feel in the new world?
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@celticeagle (146857)
• Boise, Idaho
22 Mar
I would love to do this. I am a very curious person and I would love to come back in a few decades and see how the world is doing. I would wonder about resuscitating a brain too. But, this is to be done in the future when they should know what can be done with a brain and how to rescusitate thebody/ brain safely.. Perhaps they will computerize it or put it in an android. Who knows! Interesting to be around and find out.
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@celticeagle (146857)
• Boise, Idaho
27 Mar
@noni1959 ............If I am doing it knowing I am about to die anyway I would.
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@RebeccasFarm (103677)
• Wheat Ridge, Colorado
22 Mar
I don't believe I would consider it Loretta.
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@Fleura (26143)
• United Kingdom
22 Mar
This raises so many questions and not just practical ones but ethical and legal.... I wrote a whole series of posts about this subject years ago (on Bubblews I think) but maybe I could re-visit the topic because I have far too much to say about it to fit in a response!
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@leighnyork (1273)
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22 Mar
It is an attempt to discover immortality.
I think it is all in vain.
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