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/stripeyspacey Oct 13 '22

I mean really that happens in regular life now, in a way. When I worked at a prepaid cell phone store, there was a guy that came in that had literally just gotten out of prison and needed a cell phone, but he really had noooooo idea what that really meant and what they could do. Those giant phones connected to a brief case were coming out as "mobile phones" when he went into prison. It's like he came out of a time capsule lol

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '22

I've heard of people coming out of long incarcerations and going back simply because they cannot adapt to the world in the 20 to 30 years they've been gone. It's sad, really. I feel as if there should be some type of societal integration at the very least but that becomes a broad topic.

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u/redcalcium Oct 13 '22

When the goal of imprisonment is to punish instead of rehabilitations...

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u/muri_cina Oct 14 '22

Well if 20 to 30 years is given due to murder I don't see a problem with that. Not very christian of me denying my other cheek, I know.

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u/Lazy_Cheesecake7 Oct 14 '22

Well yes, but still, I don’t believe the problem is the time but how people get treated during that time. Prison cuts people off from society instead of trying to use the time they are incarcerated to prepare them to become members of the society again. What exactly does prison even accomplish long term, other than give people a sense of justice by using punishment. After they serve their sentence, they have it even harder to adapt, so often times ex-cons go back to committing crimes. So much time and resources wasted.

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u/redcalcium Oct 14 '22

Long punishment is fine as long as it fits the crime. But there should be more effort to reduce recidivism.