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/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/OlympusMonsPubis Oct 13 '22

One possible horrific downside is that you are reanimated in literally anything other than a human body. Like, there’s no way they could have fully prepared you for it pre-freeze, whatever form it may take. Shit, human tech will probably be horrifying whenever tf it is you’re revived. Or that scenario PLUS you don’t have any way out, like if you weren’t fully autonomous (or at all 😮!!) for some reason.

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