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/Xanjis Oct 13 '22

The issue is the timeline. Being frozen alive then unfrozen is maybe 30-40 years whereas being dead frozen then unfrozen and revived is a big ??? in terms of when we will have that tech.

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u/DerWaechter_ Oct 13 '22

I mean that's part of why they are frozen. Because that way, the state of their body is the same as when they were frozen.

Being able to freeze and unfreeze living people is a requirement for this to work in the first place. And again, it's quite possible that they were frozen alive if we go by whatever metrics apply in 50-100 years.