[GlowingGhoul]

Originally Posted by Kanda444 ↗

if i could afford this, i wouldnt do it i look forward to not living forever, thanks

You'd pass on the chance of being revived in a nightmare world where you're sold to a sadistic carnival and be tortured for entertainment?

[GlowingGhoul]

Originally Posted by Oswald2001 ↗

Your body isn't preserved.

Your destroyed body is frozen.

Just send me $85,000 and I will guarantee that I will re-animate you on this Earth in 5,000 years.

I will summon your spiritual essence at that time and place you into a new body of your choice.

The popsicle people offer no guarantee.

Me? I guarantee results as promised.


Just send the check to:

I.M. Gullible Enterprises
c/o Cheatem and Howe Associates
P.O. Box 9981
Moose Jaw, Alaska

How can you be so certain of the impossibility of science's ability to repair cryogenically "damaged" cells at some point in the future?

The science is going at this from both ends, preservation (because of course not damaging something to begin with is better) and resuscitation.

From an article in this month's The Scientist journal:

Indeed, thanks to chemical cryoprotectants and sophisticated freezers, scientists and companies already have techniques to freeze sperm, eggs, embryos, and pools of cells such as blood or stem cells. And in the last decade, successful preservation of some solid tissues has offered hope that the long-neglected field is not dead in the water.

In 2005, heart surgeons in Israel used an antifreeze protein from fish to preserve rat hearts at −1.3 ?C for 21 hours, then successfully transplanted them into recipient rats, where the hearts pumped away for 24 hours prior to dissection for analysis. In 2003, a California company similarly preserved a rabbit kidney at below-freezing temperatures and then thawed and transplanted it into a recipient rabbit, which remained healthy with that kidney alone for more than a month. And since 2000, researchers at the US Department of Agriculture have been cryopreserving the embryos of tropical flies for years at a time, then thawing them with ease and watching them hatch and live normal lives. (See “Glass Menagerie” sidebar below.)

http://www.the-scientist.com/?articl.../Icing-Organs/

[Kanda444]

Originally Posted by GlowingGhoul ↗

You'd pass on the chance of being revived in a nightmare world where you're sold to a sadistic carnival and be tortured for entertainment?

i hadnt thought of that... where do i sign up?

[Shakey]

What if it's awesome when you die and you did this and wake up in a world of pain

[William May]

For $5, drop by my house, and I'll put you in the freezer......you won't be lonesome because I already have quite a few people stowed in there. Probably someone will keep the electricity on after I die, so you don't thaw out. I'll even put a sign on the door telling them to do that.

[ThisSiteistheSHIT]

People screw about with nature too much. I doubt humans will even inhabit earth 100 years from now. Imagine the look on bob's face when a humanoid fractal opens his freezer door. Hilarity will not ensue.

[bob351]

What an experience that would be, not even humans waking me up but aliens.

You folks need a better sense of adventure.

[ThisSiteistheSHIT]

tha hell. i meant bob as in a regular joe.. didnt realize your name O.o my sense of adventure is limited to smoking ganj in the woods.. i dont want a humanoid fractal probing my rectum but to each his own

[oldnorseman]

If you were revived, everyone would point at you saying, "Look, it's that Popsicle guy."

[Desensitisation]

Get bored of the present.
Get frozen.
Thaw out several hundreds of years later.
Discover humankind has destroyed itself.
Earth is now ruled by Poodles.
Fuck.