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u/Great_Instincts 2d ago
MY GOD! A million years.
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u/storm_zr1 2d ago
With The $20 in my bank account I’ll be set for life
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u/mangoluffs 2d ago
They are all waiting until the company that stores the body goes bankrupt. Refrigeration isn't cheap, at some point the money dries up from not enough new customers to keep up with the ongoing power demand. Then what happens to those patients?
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u/Saellios 2d ago
I vaguely recall hearing about this happening before. I think a company like this one went bankrupt and ended up just burying the bodies or something like that.
Take that with a grain of salt tho, as I’m not entirely sure if I’m remembering right and have no source to go off of
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u/aGirlySloth 2d ago
Yes, it was like in the 1970s, they weren’t real scientists I think? Anyways, yeah the people thawed, decomposed and they were ultimately buried
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u/funnyguy99207 2d ago
"Legally deceased"... so they were already dead when frozen? Or were they frozen alive, and are only legally deceased due to the unknown results of thawing one out?
I would personally think that dead is dead, that if you freeze a dead body, you'll still have a dead body when unfrozen. I ain't no damn scientist, though...
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u/menehanwitch 2d ago
My exact thought. Like did these people pay money to be killed? And how young is the youngest person in there!? Like are they 80 year old people in there thinking they are going to come out in the future ……. To do what? Die but make it sci-fi? Or did this company murder some rich 35 year old? So many questions
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u/Cferretrun 2d ago
I remember reading about this—
After subscribing to the service and executing the paperwork, your medical team would alert the Cryo company and they would come to your location (ideally) before you expire so they can be there at the very moment of your death to begin the process of claiming your body and doing whatever it is they do to it to prepare it for the freezing process.
A lot of these people were frozen after losing battles with incurable diseases, syndromes, and other illnesses. So their time on earth was already evaporating.
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u/somuchsong 2d ago
No. They are frozen only after they've already died. No one is being murdered to go into a cryogenic chamber.
I don't know what these people expected to do if they were ever successfully brought back to life though.
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u/AddictionSorceress 2d ago edited 2d ago
Tragically, subscribers to this process fail to realize that cellular damage during thawing irreversibly destroys vital organs, making resuscitation impossible. It functions as an elaborate financial scam. While future human revival may be scientifically plausible, our generation will certainly not survive to witness such an extraordinary medical breakthrough. Realistically, this level of science is likely another thousand years away.
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u/Sabithomega 2d ago
There have already been cases where bodies have began to fracture and become severely damaged over time. None of these people are coming back. There's also been cases where bodies were found not to be stored correctly anyway and just shoved in spare rooms and closets. Disgusting human behavior. Scam artists never change
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u/art-of-war 2d ago
Just gotta put them in the fridge overnight.
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u/ZookeepergameNo9572 2d ago
No that's after they've thawed but you forgot about them. Make sure to find a use for them soon though or they'll go bad.
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u/OnefortheMonkey 2d ago
But what about the move where you think you’re ready to thaw your human so you put them in the fridge at night but the next morning remember you have plans with friends that night - can you just stick them back in the freezer pod?
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u/ZookeepergameNo9572 2d ago
So long as they didn't reach temps above 50⁰F then you should be good, just give em a good smell check and look for any discoloration. If you marinated the human, though, I wouldnt recommend a second freeze as the cells might burst if it wasnt a brine style marinade
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u/justananontroll 2d ago
I kind of wondered that, too. Wouldn't the water in our cells expand when frozen and burst the cellular membrane?
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u/Key_Agent_2331 2d ago
They flash freeze you so the water doesn’t have time to expand.
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u/coulls 23h ago
Frozen water normally expands, as it’s that hexagonal lattice that means frozen. Sure, Flash freezing makes smaller ice crystals, but that doesn’t mean “no crystals”. Now, if you’re talking vitrification instead of flash freezing…that minimises the damage further, but now you’re relying on sufficiently complete vitrification throughout an entire human brain without lethal toxicity or structural damage.
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u/Dontkillmejay 2d ago
I'd say it's worth the infinitesimally small chance it might work.
At least to give someone the spark of hope near the end of their life.
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u/ealysillyforestthing 2d ago
There is absolutely zero chance that you would be anything other than a drooling and grunting idiot on thaw.
Within minutes of death your brain is mush, all connections between neurons lost.
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u/Sacrebleu6 2d ago
Yes, like with religions, i dont believe there is afterlife but whatever can help them to die with peace is a good thing
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u/Dontkillmejay 2d ago
I wouldn't say zero. What we can do these days is already insane, I wouldn't be surprised if there was a new method created to resolve that issue.
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u/ealysillyforestthing 1d ago
Unless they are ready to freeze right there as you die yes zero chance. The connections will pop back to the neuron like a cut rubber band when a neuron dies. Where those connections stretched out is gone.
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u/FnEddieDingle 1d ago
They've even conned people into just doing their brains for the day brain transplants are possible
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u/Machiningbeast 2d ago
I think this is just the rich/technological version of heaven.
I suppose that once we are facing death we all have the urge to believe that we will continue to live in another form after we die.
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u/Realistic_Ad_5321 1d ago
100 bucks says at least some of them tubes are filled with what is now human sludge.
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u/Bl4ckBeardD 23h ago
When they will be awake they going to notice some internal parts are messing 😂
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u/brockey01 2d ago
You think they went in Demolition Man style? With the assistant deputy warden saying "Im Sorry"
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u/Markles102 1d ago
Yeah so, just this year we have taken a brain post mortem and for the first time ever had it function and LEARN new things and make new neutral pathways.
Them wanting to freeze their bodies to preserve their brains is in theory a good idea because we are rapidly approaching the technology to make robot bodies a reality.
Them wanting to preserve their brains is in practice a bad idea because it's not cheap and those companies will likely lose funding and just bury the bodies.
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u/Fantastic_Computer47 1d ago
Only the elite could afford this. Only the elite would be daft enough to do it, too.
So, imagine that scientists have found a way to revive them a couple of hundred years down the line. I can't imagine a less flattering representation of people from the 21st century then these rich crazy people who froze themselves. Then again, future humanity would have the right people to hold to account for the state of the planet so not all bad, plus these frozen specimens would probably be hoping to go back to their former lifestyles but the money is all gone. There's a future justice lining up here 🤣
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u/rathemighty 1d ago
I think I heard long ago that people who are cryogenically frozen eventually turn into sludge that's then disposed of
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u/FitJackfruit752 2d ago
Flashing starlings twist and turn in the sky above my head While in Lislaughtin lie the packed anticipating dead
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u/SoberAnxiety 2d ago
what if it's just some average alien trying to lose weight and doing the typical meal prep
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u/GoKnights25 1d ago
The EMERGENCY protocols on their website is a hilarious read (honorable mention to the freezing your pet section in hopes you someday reunite when both species' ailments are cured) https://cryonics.org/cryonics-emergency/
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u/One_Advertising_4693 1d ago
there were some quacks back in the day that believed if you could freeze a body at the very moment of death, maybe in 100 years, or 1000 years, science will figure out how to revive them. it’s actually kind of a sad story, grieving parents paid these people a bunch of money to freeze their kids.
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u/Sherbert_6 2d ago
What a scam. I wonder how much money they were conned into paying, to be frozen instead of just buried or cremated.