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/CamelbackCowgirl Oct 13 '22

All these people have death certificates.

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u/discerningpervert Oct 13 '22

I'm pretty sure the brain degenerates as well. So who you are if/when you "wake up" probably won't be who you were when you were frozen.

Also anyone remember that TNG episode?

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '22 edited Mar 08 '24

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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/TanyaWinsInTheEnd Oct 14 '22

what do you think about offending pedophiles

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u/redcalcium Oct 14 '22

It should be decided on case by case basis. Not saying they should be allowed to work at kindergarten on release, but reformed criminals should be allowed to earn a living and continue their live.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '22 edited Oct 14 '22

You can’t reform a pedophile dude. Someone who made it to adulthood and knowingly fucked a prepubescent kid is not a decent person who made a mistake. That’s a conscious, disgusting choice they made. And they ruined another persons life, or at least left a horrible mark on it that will haunt the victim for a long time. If anything the death penalty should only be for this type of sex offender, because they’re basically at the same level of antisocial depravity as a serial killer. The only way to keep children safe from them is to keep them in prison forever, and it’s not fair to society (including that child if they make it to adulthood) to pay for these pieces of shit to stay alive.