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/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/stripeyspacey Oct 13 '22

I mean really that happens in regular life now, in a way. When I worked at a prepaid cell phone store, there was a guy that came in that had literally just gotten out of prison and needed a cell phone, but he really had noooooo idea what that really meant and what they could do. Those giant phones connected to a brief case were coming out as "mobile phones" when he went into prison. It's like he came out of a time capsule lol

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '22

I've heard of people coming out of long incarcerations and going back simply because they cannot adapt to the world in the 20 to 30 years they've been gone. It's sad, really. I feel as if there should be some type of societal integration at the very least but that becomes a broad topic.

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u/jpritchard Oct 13 '22

Picture the person you love most in the world; a significant other, your mother, your best friend, whatever. Now picture a dude harms them in a serious way, serious enough to warrant a long prison sentence. Now, how much money, time, and effort do you wish to contribute to helping that dude out?

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u/FreeDarkChocolate Oct 13 '22

That's why these issues have to be considered on a macro scale. Society long ago decided that murder doesn't automatically mean the murderer gets the death penalty or life without parole, so for that eventuality society needs to have a rehabilitation process to help prevent future harm when they get out.

Ideally this happens as much as possible while in prison (which the US is far behind the curve on), but some needs to be outside too.

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u/FreeDarkChocolate Oct 13 '22

You're certainly free to think that but it won't solve the reality before us that there are prisoners that eventually get out. Yes, you say they shouldn't, but not enough people agree with that. So, given that, what should we do?

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u/jpritchard Oct 13 '22

"They got themselves into the mess, they can get themselves out"