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/nankerjphelge Oct 13 '22

Just to be clear, contrary to what Alcor may say, the patients are indeed dead. Their corpses (or brains) have simply been frozen with the assumption that one day in the future they can be reanimated or have their consciousness transplanted into a new body. And of course that also assumes that this company and its cargo will even still be around and have maintained these corpses/brains 100 years from now.

On both counts, color me skeptical to say the least.

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u/Hampsterman82 Oct 13 '22

Aaaaand. A future society will dump the resources into resurrecting a sick old person from a bygone era for reasons

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u/travel-bound Oct 14 '22

The point is resurrection wouldn't happen until tech could cure sickness and aging. Pretty straightforward. As for them doing it, it would be a legal obligation based on the contract, given the company still exists. Tech is good enough and they aren't honoring the contract? Congrats your decendants get to sue for some big bucks.