[ECM]

Heh, the headline made it sound like someone was volunteering to be frozen before they died--I had visions of Han Solo being lowered into the carbonite freezing chamber. /geek

[BenLurkin]

Ghastly.

[somemoreequalthanothers]

How in the hell does anyone expect to re-animate a dead body? This is the worst of all rip offs.

[operation clinton cleanup]

Been there, done that..

[dighton]

'I hope this film opens people's eyes to the benefits of cryonics,' he added.

Since no one has been brought back, what benefits might those be?

[Darkwolf377]

Soon after the person dies, water in the body is replaced with an antifreeze to stop cells deteriorating.

Two possible outcomes for this:

1. People in the future won't care about waking up our frozen dead, and will just bury them.

2. People in the future wondering how nuts we were. "We could have brought them back to life but you filled them with anti-freeze. They're dead!"

[Millee]

Independent production firm Zig Zag, which is also making the controversial documentary on Britain's first 'masturbate-a-thon' for Channel 4, spent months negotiating to secure access to the procedure.

Would this be something you'd need to get pledges for????

[SERKIT]

Independent production firm Zig Zag, which is also making the controversial documentary on Britain's first 'masturbate-a-thon' for Channel 4, spent months negotiating to secure access to the procedure.

"Zig-Zag"? They're smokin' sumthin! "Masterbate-a-thon", now there's something to proudly put on a resume'.

[TNdandelion]

It's just a guess, but I foresee these frozen dead people given more respect for potential life than frozen embryos.

[annie laurie]

A very disturbing short story called "The Thaw" by Tanith Lee springs to mind ... things didn't turn out as expected ...

[Dallas59]

Human cells rupture as water ice forms at the molecular level. You can't remove and replace all the water in the Human body.
What they don't say is that maybe just maybe the technology to reverse that molecular damage will be there as well as a "cure" for whatever disease made the victim take such a drastic course when they are revived.

[stylecouncilor]