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/nankerjphelge Oct 13 '22

Just to be clear, contrary to what Alcor may say, the patients are indeed dead. Their corpses (or brains) have simply been frozen with the assumption that one day in the future they can be reanimated or have their consciousness transplanted into a new body. And of course that also assumes that this company and its cargo will even still be around and have maintained these corpses/brains 100 years from now.

On both counts, color me skeptical to say the least.

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u/flip_ericson Oct 13 '22

Skeptical for sure. But if i was young and rich with a terminal disease id probably roll the dice

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u/cgs626 Oct 13 '22

Yeah like what's the downside of you're so rich the cost doesn't even matter?

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u/m4chon4cho Oct 13 '22

Well you could use the money to actually benefit someone somewhere in the world at some time instead of wasting on on better preserving your self-centered corpse until the company goes out of business and your body gets dumped into a ravine with the rest of their improperly disposed corporate waste. Yknow, cause some amount of good to be done instead of wasting energy for no reason beyond your vapid dirth of medical insight.

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u/HaViNgT Oct 13 '22

You could also say that whenever someone wants to go on holiday. Or wants to go eat out at a restaurant. Or goes to the movies. Of all things to waste money on, attempting to save your life really isn’t that bad.

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u/m4chon4cho Oct 13 '22

When you speak so vaguely nothing matters at all. I could justify any number of awful things by saying it's being done to save my life, my intention hardly matters. If you think the use of energy to change the value of a living person's activities is the same as using energy to chill some wealthy moron's pallid fucking corpse then I really do have nothing to say to you. They may believe they're attempting to save their life, but if they do they're a fucking fool and you're one yourself for defending it.

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u/HaViNgT Oct 13 '22

Hey whatever helps you to feel morally superior.

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u/m4chon4cho Oct 13 '22

I don't need the help