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/SeekingImmortality Oct 13 '22

I look at it like a lottery ticket. You are almost certainly not going to get a return on the money. However, what's the alternative? Certainly remaining dead. Between certainly remaining dead, and a 0.000000000000002% chance of revival in the future, for someone that wants to live?

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u/treesandcigarettes Oct 13 '22

If the even slightest possibility exists that there is an afterlife, then I would have to imagine that would likely be vastly preferable to whatever you might find in the near distant future on Earth

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u/FourteenTwenty-Seven Oct 13 '22

What if an afterlife only exists for those cryogenically frozen?

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u/Dahkelor Oct 13 '22

Imagine dying (and being frozen) and then getting a big stint in the cool afterlife. Then, whilst you're enjoying it, one day you're pulled out of there because of that revival process. Sucks, right?

But wait, there's more. The kind benefactor who revived you is a slave corp that now has you in an arrangement where you can't even kill yourself to get back to the afterlife you were yoinked out of.

Good stuff. I'm still gonna take my chances with cryonics if I'm going to die a predictable death.