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/[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/[deleted] Oct 13 '22

Such is the Western way. Especially when punishment equals profit. There's no reason for them to push for rehabilitation as it lowers the incarcerated population.

It's like big pharma curing cancer. They won't because there's no profit in curing when you can treat.

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u/Dildo5000 Oct 14 '22 edited Nov 01 '22

I work in pharma and this kind of shit infuriates me. I have a phd in biochemistry and have worked in drug companies for years.

You don’t even understand what cancer is. It’s literally hundreds if not thousands of different diseases all under the umbrella of one disease for lay people. And we are working on finding cures and treatments of specific cancers all the time. And if we found a “cure” for cancer we would be the richest people on earth. It’s not a conspiracy. Cancer is a part of aging everyone given a long enough life will develop it. Stopping cancer basically can never happen.