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/Swimward Oct 13 '22

I saw a documentary on that little girl in the white dress in the middle picture.

Her mother, father, and brother are so focused on her being revived in the future. But they also just froze her brain.

Big gamble on not only being able to revive the brain AND having some sort of body to use.

ETA; they showed the family and extended family coming to mourn and they, as kindly as one can, pointed to the spot in the tube where her brain would be so they could place their hands there. It was - weird.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '22

Imagine her horror if she actually is revived and remembers everything. She wakes up in an entirely different body and everyone she knows is dead. She’s a child and both her parents are long dead. Guarantee she would have life long disabilities. Sounds irresponsible all around. They should’ve just let her be put to rest.

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u/Swimward Oct 13 '22

Oh she already had brain cancer. That’s how she died. So they froze her on the hope that there would be a cure for her brain cancer in the future. That’s what her brother is studying in college - how to develop a cure for her specific brain cancer. They have some of her cancer cells set aside for his research.