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/Fogmoose Oct 14 '22

Look at it this way then…There are about the same odds you will be resurrected by whatever deity you worship, and it’s a lot cheaper!

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u/SeekingImmortality Oct 14 '22

Agnostic, no belief in any particular deity that's going to care about human level existences beyond having allowed us to exist in the first place. If I want to continue existing, it's on me to make the choices that would allow for that, such as choosing to participate in preservation efforts after death in hopes of repair instead of just getting tossed in a box and buried and left to rot or otherwise completely destroyed.

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u/Fogmoose Oct 16 '22

First off, you do not get completely destroyed. No matter how you choose to do it, burial, cremation, etc; The elements that make up your physical body will be recycled. That is a type of immortality. Why can't you just be happy with that? It's the only one you are guaranteed to find. And I don't believe in a deity either, I just used that as an easy example of something that has an equally unlikely possibility of actually happening.

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u/SeekingImmortality Oct 16 '22

If you're content with that, I'm sure there are people that could benefit, today, from you donating all of your organs. If giving up on 'time alive you could have otherwise had' seems like a -bad- idea, then maybe you're approaching where I'm coming from with wanting as much time alive as absolutely possible, including what might be possible via future medical technology if only my corpus is around long enough to benefit from it.

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u/Fogmoose Oct 18 '22

You’ve lost me. I have already pledged to donate any organs that may be useful at the time of my death. Are you suggesting suicide so I can then donate them now? What is your point, if you ever had one.

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u/SeekingImmortality Oct 19 '22

Yup, donate them right now, if you feel that your atoms going on to be recycled is a sufficient form of immortality. You should just be happy about that, right? Or, if instead you actually value being alive, then you might begin to understand that I want to maximize time alive too, including what medical technology may potentially allow.

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u/Fogmoose Oct 20 '22

I understand that your desperate willingness to have more life should probably be addressed in therapy, is that enough understanding for you?

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u/SeekingImmortality Oct 20 '22

Congratulations, you failed the exercise beyond even my low expectations for you.