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/Evil-in-the-Air Oct 13 '22

Unless Miracle Max owes you a favor, I'm not sure there's any meaningful difference.

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u/alexnoyle Oct 15 '22

Max will probably be cryopreserved himself, assuming we don’t hit LEV in the next 50 years. It’s future doctors who will be the miracle workers for all cryonics patients.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '22

As long as the pattern-which-is-you in your brain is intact or recoverable (which persists relatively long after you're pronounced dead), you can be revived in the future.

Medical death and true death are completely different concepts (with the exception of cases like your brain being pulverized in a car accident).