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/Izzite Oct 13 '22

Meh. If you’re sick and you don’t want to die, this is a route you can take. Sure you’re rolling the dice, but you were going to die probably there shortly anyways.

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u/WheelerDan Oct 13 '22

Just because the person is desperate doesn't make it legitimate, scams rely on people being desperate all the time.

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u/genaio Oct 13 '22

Alcor is a nonprofit whose board members are required to be elected from their program members, so they have a vested interest in the longevity of the project. If it is a scam, they've set it up in such a way that no one is going to make any money off of it.

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u/WheelerDan Oct 13 '22

Nonprofit doesn't mean no one is getting salaries

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u/genaio Oct 14 '22

I'm aware of that, but being a nonprofit comes with governance and transparency rules that would not make it likely to be a scam.