Reviving Dead Only Matter of Time, British Futurist Says

Newsmax ^ | December 26, 2016 | Brian Freeman

[kevcol]

Alcor, which began storing bodies in 1982, is one of the world's largest cryogenic facilities. It has 1,100 paying members on its books, and there are currently 149 patients at the facility, including the youngest person ever cryo-preserved (a two-year-old from Thailand), as well as baseball star Ted Williams.

"These people are potentially revivable – they are like people in a deep coma. They have rights, they can't just be disposed of at any time," More insisted.

The company has a watch list of members in declining health. A "standby" team is sent to be nearby the patient when he appears to be close to death.

[Hugin]

Yep, I think of Niven every time I see a story about “corpsicles”.

For those who haven’t read them, his stories take place in a future where these people are obsolete, and they must convince a socialist death panel that they have utility to society, or be sent to the organ banks for dissection and use as replacement organs.

[Phil DiBasquette]

Whyyyy nottt? Dr. Who is very popular especially over there an immortal Time Lord and a shape shifter to boot

[Uncle Sam 911]

Yes, just a matter of time, Resurrection Day will be here in just a matter of time.

[KC_Lion]

There is a Keith Richards Joke here somewhere.

[Moonman62]

I’ll be impressed when they can revive people who’ve been cremated.

[MrEdd]

Great.
Now give me my flying car, it’s long overdue.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Exactly. They can no more reanimate a dead body than they can make a shoe sing and dance. A dead body is just that: A dead body, it has nothing to do with life anymore no more than a rock in the ground does. I’ve seen people die right in front of me many times when I worked as an orderly at Flushing hospital in New York city in the 1980s - Something absolutely definitely without question leaves the body when someone dies and that is the soul, I like to compare it to a butterfly leaving a cocoon, that shell is left behind. I’ve seen it many times, everything about the person is completely different when they die, it is not the same “person” anymore from one instant to the next, alive and dead. I tell people this all the time, it’s very hard to describe unless you experience it up close. It’s not like a plug getting pulled or a puppet getting its strings cut, something actually leaves, you can feel it.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Just today, I read somewhere, that someone is having just his head frozen, because the body is replaceable.

[Ransomed]

At one stage in Niven’s history complete organ transplant techniques were perfected, so eventually the death penalty was enacted for things like jay walking. The masses needed body parts to extend their lifespan so they just kept voting for more crimes to be punished by being parted out and stored in the organ banks. “Organlegging” became a major problem.

Freegards

[wastedyears]

Which novel of his?

[Fiddlstix]

Heck, the dead always rise on voting day here in America.

How True! How True!
Voter Immortality in The USA!

[BAN-ONE]

I’ll pass for now. I have a future appointment with my Master Builder. He still has the original blueprints, hardware, software, etc.

[ETL]

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Mr. Garrity and the Graves

Mr. Garrity and the Graves”[1] is an episode of the American television series The Twilight Zone.

Plot:

A traveling peddler, Garrity, arrives in the little, recently renamed town of Happiness, Arizona, offering to bring the townsfolk’s dead back from Boot Hill. Initially, they don’t believe him, but when he appears to resurrect a dead dog struck by a traveler’s horse-drawn wagon, they do believe him. After performing the resurrection ritual, Garrity, in seemingly casual conversation, reminds the people about the dead and departed, almost all of whom were murdered: who died having a score to settle with whom, and so forth. The townsfolk grow uncomfortable at the thought of facing problems they thought buried with the dead; when one apparent resurrectee is seen approaching town, his brother, who shot the man himself, bribes Garrity to reverse the ritual, and the figure vanishes. Ultimately, everyone in town similarly pays Garrity to not revive their “loved ones.”

Later that night, Garrity and his assistant (who was both wagon driver and “resurrectee”) ride away with the money, joking about how they cannot actually bring the dead back to life: they had simply performed a few smoke and mirrors tricks to con the townsfolk, and used a dog that was alive the whole time but simply knew how to play dead. After they have left the town, the last scene reveals that the dead really are rising from the grave, with one commenting that the peddler underestimates his own ability.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Garrity_and_the_Graves

[DaxtonBrown]

I think there is molecular migration even at cryogenic temperatures. Much less those pesky ice crystals.

[aomagrat]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatlander_(short_story_collection)

[farming pharmer]

If you took Barack Obama today, and cryogenically froze him, in hopes of reviving him in 200 years, I’d be OK with that.

Ugh! Why would you curse the future with BHO? I'm sure the furture wil be as chock full-o-idiots as today. Why add another one?

[A Navy Vet]

"How does one get a job as a “futurist”?"

Writing a convoluted unsubstantiated thesis that awe the University PTB's? It has long ago stopped being about proven theory for a thesis, it's about feel good ideas.

I have a thesis as a "futurist".
What if the future of mankind was the result of an advanced being deciding which object to move to within the circle of the Universe? It could determine our future. Oh wait, that was the end of the movie, "Men In Black". I'll start over...

How about, an alien race comes to Earth and overlords the future progression and evolution of the human race which turns us into transcendental beings? Oops, done in, "Childhoods End", by Arthur C. Clark.

Okay got it! An object appears on Earth in its cave man days and changes the evolution of Earth. Damn, also done by Arthur C. Clark.

Wait, I really do have the future predicted in this thesis: Mankind makes direct comms with ghosts and they show us the way to their dimension which can alter the future of Earth. Damn! That's "BeetleJuice". Oh well, I tried.

Last try: Mysterious aliens appear to mind control children because knowing the Earth is going to die with their futuristic mystical powers. They write the future through one child and others see the obscure meaning years later. The all-wise aliens only take the children of Earth in their spaceships to transport them to a new planet for the survival of the human species. Wanna help me write the screenplay?

[spirited irish]

Agreed. Back in the day when the soul departed for eternity its body was referred to as the ‘remains.’ Today however, some of the unhinged not only believe they’ll be able to reanimate their dead bodies but one poor sap said he has plans for” himself in the future to preserve just his head, saying “the rest of my body is replaceable.”

[hoagy62]

Thank you....you just described the film “Knowing” with Nicholas Cage in the last paragraph .

I remember a short story about 40 years ago entitled “Heal the sick, raise the dead”. It was about a doctor in the future and his dealings with a teenage girl who wanted her teen boy lover resurrected. Very interesting.

[reg45]

Just add water!!!