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[cormack12]

Well, are you? If it becomes widely affordable to the mainstream public joe, you gonna freeze your head and spine?

 

[Mista]

Its so rubbish that I had to google it. Of course no, this is silly mate.

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

I mean, maybe? If there’s an off chance of being revived in the future, perhaps I’d go for it.

Probably not though. I am pretty sure that dead is dead. Or worst case scenario: sometimes dead is better

 

[SKM1]

I don't look forward to lengthening my allotted time in this world, so no.

 

[Guy_who_thinks_hes_cool]

that's a NO for me, I want my peace

 

[Skyfox]

Freezing is utterly destructive on a cellular level. They need some other way to do it.

 

[lock2k]

Freezing is utterly destructive on a cellular level. They need some other way to do it.

True

It will be frostbite town for those who try.

 

[LordKasual]

Well, are you? If it becomes widely affordable to the mainstream public joe, you gonna freeze your head and spine?

Unless they find a way to not completely obliterate your cells upon freezing you (rendering the whole process worthless) then no

Frostbite is literally no better than Fire as far as cells are concerned


Some kind of neural download/copy/backup seems far more likely than finding a way to safely preserve/reanimate human flesh.

 

[Amory]

Freezing is never going to be a viable method of preserving someone's consciousness for later

But even if it was, I'd have no interest.

Waking up decades into the future, probably fucked up in multiple ways from the effects of the preservation, when my friends, loved ones, and progeny are mostly long dead? That literally sounds like hell to me.

 

[Tesseract]

no, i've lived too long

 

[Strife In a Teacup]

What if after you woke up from cryo, you were actually in Fallout 4, and Todd Howard was the Overseer of your vault?

 

[synchronicity]

It doesn't matter to me. I'm the light - not the image on the screen.

Death is just part of the endless cycle of transformation. Not a big deal.

 

[Moogle11]

Nah. I have zero interest in living forever in any form. Hell, I'm already in my 40s and getting to the "get off my lawn/old man yelling at clouds" stage of feeling out of touch with younger generations and societal changes. I'm by no means ready to die or anything, but a normal life span is fine by me.

 

[GHG]

I need it now.

Wake me up when this coronavirus shit is over.

 

[mekes]

Nah.

Im not being left for the lols only to be revived in 4093 to fight in whatever Great War I would be forced to participate in.

 

[EviLore]

No continuity of consciousness in cryo. May as well be a clone.

 

[GoldenEye Samurai]

I’ll pass. When my time is up, I will ride off into that proverbial sunset... Or be eaten by maggots until there isn’t anything left. Whichever you prefer to imagine.

 

[GeorgPrime]

Well, are you? If it becomes widely affordable to the mainstream public joe, you gonna freeze your head and spine?

I hope for cheap space burials... where your body will be part of one of the spacex satellites going into space.

 

[Pagusas]

in a world facing overpopulation, why would we want average nobodies (basically everyone in this thread) to be brought back from the dead and be additional pulls on resources?

 

[GoldenEye Samurai]

in a world facing overpopulation, why would we want average nobodies (basically everyone in this thread) to be brought back from the dead and be additional pulls on resources?

By then we’ll have colonized Mars. Just ask Elon Musk.

 

[Blade2.0]

Maybe, why not for that tiny minuscule chance it would work, lol. But everything I've read says it's hooey anyways, and a lot of the companies have lost their frozen bodies to power outages and shit anyways so...

 

[DESTROYA]

No thanks, when your time is up its up.

 

[Nester99]

Sure, I’ve watched Futurama.

Sign me up

 

[Omega Supreme Holopsicon]

I mean, maybe? If there’s an off chance of being revived in the future, perhaps I’d go for it.

Probably not though. I am pretty sure that dead is dead. Or worst case scenario: sometimes dead is better

This, you don't know what sort of dystopian future could exist.

Freezing is utterly destructive on a cellular level. They need some other way to do it.

Cryonics of the head actually uses vitrification rather than freezing, there is barely any structural damage but the chemicals are poisonous, iirc.

No continuity of consciousness in cryo. May as well be a clone.

I think this depends on how you're restored from cryonics. If they copy the information, that is one thing. If they somehow remove the toxins from your actual brain, and restore its function, I don't see why it wouldn't be you.

 

[The Pleasure]

Only if i go down smooth when someone drinks my head water.

 

[jshackles]

Only if I get to be "reincarnated" as a computer AI who gets to travel through space and build awesome shit

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[TaySan]

Not going to lie i had to google search that. lol
If i can come back to life again like in Futurama then sure otherwise don't waste the money on me. Throw my corpse in the dump for all i care.

 

[Papa]

hell yeah bruv, i can't imagine a future without matthew

 

[mango drank]

For anyone who's bored and wants to know more, I remember this being a solid read, a good overview of everything and answers to most what/why/when/how questions:

Why Cryonics Makes Sense — Wait But Why

The more I read about cryonics—i.e. freezing yourself after death—the more I realized it's something we should all be talking about.

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