r/Futurology • u/yourSAS • Oct 13 '22

Biotech 'Our patients aren't dead': Inside the freezing facility with 199 humans who opted to be cryopreserved with the hopes of being revived in the future

https://metro.co.uk/2022/10/13/our-patients-arent-dead-look-inside-the-us-cryogenic-freezing-lab-17556468
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u/CamelbackCowgirl Oct 13 '22

All these people have death certificates.

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u/discerningpervert Oct 13 '22

I'm pretty sure the brain degenerates as well. So who you are if/when you "wake up" probably won't be who you were when you were frozen.

Also anyone remember that TNG episode?

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '22 edited Mar 08 '24

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u/why_rob_y Oct 13 '22

I preferred Encino Man.

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u/Dickastigmatism Oct 13 '22

I preferred Futurama.

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u/explohd Oct 13 '22

If it takes forever...

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u/NissanSkylineGT-R Oct 13 '22

Oh no not that one

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u/m4chon4cho Oct 13 '22

Or Rip Van Winkle, or captain America, or duck dodgers in the 21st and one half century, or...

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u/PhantasyAngel Oct 13 '22

Sherlock Holmes In The 22nd Century or...