Posted on 02/04/2024 5:38:56 PM PST by algore
chambersCredit: Cryonics Institute
Several facilities in the US, UK and across the world have morgues full of frozen human heads, bodies and even pets waiting for science to let them live again.
The controversial process of being cryo-preserved has been dubbed a "lottery ticket to immortality" by some hopeful people.
The hope is that people with terminal illnesses could be woken up a time when such diseases and illnesses are curable.
But the goal of cryo is still a long shot - and coming back to life is still not a guarantee.
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More than 500 people are floating inside giant thermos bottles filled with liquid nitrogen known as a Dewar.
Inside the chilling chambers, the body is wrapped in several layers of insulating material, and attached to a stretcher with the head angled downwards to keep the brain as cold and as stable as possible.
The corpses lay for years, decades and potentially even centuries as scientists and doctors hunt for the cure to diseases - and ultimately cheat death.
At Cryonics Institute in Clinton Township, Michigan, it costs around £22,000 to be preserved in a -195C liquid nitrogen tank for decades to come.
You've got nothing to lose and everything to gain.
"You get can buried or cremated and we know what happens to the though those people, they won't ever be repaired, rejuvenated, or reversed, back into a healthy age.
"The grave is your only real alternative and that's complete oblivion. So we want to defeat man's greatest enemy - death itself."
Founded in 1976, Dennis' life goal at Cryonics Institute is to "try to alleviate suffering and pain and to help restore life whenever possible".
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actually XiaoBidementia is not considered a ‘successful’ reanimation, my bad
How much would you pay to become a corpsicle right before you die?
I remember hearing about these guys a few decades ago—thought it was an interesting.
I am older and wiser now—and convinced these folks are kooks.
Just to repeat the link—here is why:
https://podbay.fm/p/where-is-my-mind
I looked for the warrantee information, couldn’t find.
Wonder what the contract says.
Cost is $28,000 if you buy the life time membership.
They will sell you a life insurance program to cover other needed expenses
Interesting this is a non profit organization.
more power to them if anyone wants to.
https://cryonics.org/member-statistics/
here is their membership stats. Quite a few from Canada, probably a reason for that.
How many non-profits have remained in business for one hundred years?
A few.
Two hundred years?
A very few.
Three hundred years?
Now it is getting a bit dicey....
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Stop!
I remember reading Michael Jackson had his head frozen. I don’t know if that was really true.
The pilots take off successfully hundreds of times...and each one then announces...sorry folks I do not know how to land this thing....
Lol.
They are going about it all wrong. You see, the future is all about recording your mind and knowledge before you die, then for a fee, clone your body and reintroduce all that memories and knowledge into the cloned being. Or, for a fee, sell that knowledge to be implanted to future patients so it is never lost. You could even have false memories implanted, I think Arney made a movie about that.
You are getting warmer my FRiend.
These freezing folks are stuck on eight track tape technology.
DNA, some type of mind download and cloning is the easy way—and you don’t need to grow the clones until you need them.
LOL...I absolutely love Far Side humor! I was given the encyclopedic versions as a gift!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ettinger
This is the founder. And most likely left an inheritance to the vision so there could be some good funding behind this from him and others?
I watch an episode of the original 5-O every weeknight. Great entertainment!
How about making a prediction—how long do you think this non-profit will last?
Exactly. I once heard someone who works with this stuff being interviewed on radio. All I could think was, what if the grid goes down?
His first patient was his mother Rhea, who died in 1977. “I don’t know if she was very enthusiastic about it,” he said of his mother’s freezing, “but she was willing.”
Well, at least once in this meat vehicle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies
Here is list of oldest for profit companies, non profit not a category, might be a reason.
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