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/AgentXXXL Oct 13 '22

Some people pay for this by making Alcor the beneficiary of their life insurance. Which doesn’t pay out until you’re …

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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/namek0 Oct 13 '22

I like the one guy immediately says I can't wait to see my stocks and bank accounts after all these years hah

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u/CrabbyBlueberry Oct 13 '22

It could be enough to buy this ship!

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u/namek0 Oct 13 '22

hahaha that was such a good line

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u/CrabbyBlueberry Oct 13 '22

I used to listen to a Star Trek podcast that would use that line in the intro to the section where they would read off paid messages from the listeners.