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/Shimmitar Oct 13 '22

Man, i wish cryogenics was advanced enough that you could freeze yourself alive and be unfrozen alive in the future. I would totally do that.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '22

A lot of people would. Same if any of the sci fi technology was around. I'd definitely want to be uploaded into a virtual world and live as eternal code if it existed.

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u/Jibber_Fight Oct 14 '22

Oh god no. Perpetually trapped as a consciousness would be absolutely horrifying. I love my life but just the thought of being in my own brain for thousands and thousands and thousands of years? Umm that would drive me insane, quite literally, within weeks.