[mountn man]

I know it's an urban legend
Just had to post Walt.

[\/\/ayne]

This makes me think of The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar from the movie "Tales of Terror."

Dying from a painful disease, M. Valdemar (Vincent Price) employs a hypnotist, Mr. Carmichael (Basil Rathbone), to alleviate his suffering by putting him under various trances. He then remains between the world of the living and the dead. Originally written by Edgar Allen Poe.

What if this guy is frozen between Hell and Earth? Yarrrrg.

[sit-rep]

insert pic of Austin Powers Here!

[johnthebaptistmoore]

Well...it worked for The Bionic Woman.

[I want the USA back]

Delusional. Either dead or alive. If dead, no possibility of coming back to life. If alive, horrible suffering for 50 years.

[fruser1]

“Scottsdale, Arizona”

If I were going to keep a freezer running 24/7, I’d pick a cooler place to start!

I wonder how many other stupid decisions this guy made along the way.

Doesn’t bode well for the meat popsicle.

[The Great RJ]

I doubt that freezing a body will produce anything but a well preserved corpse at some future date. However, assuming it might be possible to reanimate these frozen bodies in the future, why would anyone want to or be willing to pay the cost of the process? These defrosted people would be totally ignorant of life in the new times, have no particular knowledge or skills of value in the new society and would be little more than interesting research for historians. Imagine if someone from the 1600s were revived today. Would they be able to cope with living in the 21st Century? Even a revived Shakespear or Galileo would be little more than curiosities.

Also consider the person being revived. Everyone they ever knew would be dead and even if they had far distant descendants would those descendants even care about a 15th generation removed relative being back?

[IronJack]

Human cells are mostly water. Water expands when it freezes. The increased volume within the cell would cause the cellular membrane to rupture, spilling the contents of the cell and killing it.

What you will have when you thaw this body is a puddle of DNA goop with some bones and hair in it.

[Oztrich Boy]

He’s dead, Jim