Cryonics: Chilling into the future

In an Arizona laboratory, the bodies of nearly 200 people, and 90 pets, are being stored in liquid nitrogen, to be kept frozen until scientists in the future can possibly revive them. Correspondent Luke Burbank visits the Alcor Corporation, where some very patient patients are being held for an uncertain future, and talks with a neuroethicist about the lethal and moral propriety of cryonics.

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[txtemptress]

You’d think people would wait till someone was “revived” before buying into this idea….

[JasonGastrich]

No. They’re dead. They’re as dead as a door nail.

[andywagoner]

give me a break, I think this is kind of stupid. I'm skeptical whether this will ever really work. why come back to life as a 92 year old?

[maineyor]

Why are there no Closed Captions on these CBS

[oceanwoods]

What a horrible way to spend the afterlife. Freezing forever...

[URCompliant]

Playing God will never cease, until you find yourself actually dead and realize, you cannot...

[myothercarisadelorean]

I cannot believe they did not show a clip of Austin Powers in freeze as a reference to this. Here's my question. What happens if the company goes out of business?

[sharont]

How many years talking about this? Enough slready

[drac]

Imagine living in the in the 1700s and wake up in this world. You wouldn't be able to do anything. Zero education for todays purpose, can't drive, can't do any modern job, can't speak to people as language evolved even if its english. You would be a child in a body of an adult, needing the government or someone to take care of you forever, while you get amazed of what exist, you know nobody, you can't relate on absolutely anything, no food or traditions you used to have. Futuristic technology doesn't give happiness.
Wouldn't be much better to just die and born again as a baby like we do now?

[albionicamerican]

Also most cryonicists are pretty much middle class, though a few multimillionaires and billionaires have signed up for cryotransport. You can tell that we cryonicist men aren't loaded with money because adventuresses generally avoid trying to meet us; women on the make can tell that we aren't good prospects for getting money they didn't have to earn.

[albionicamerican]

Cryonics attracts disproportionately few women, but in my experience the ones who do sign up for it on their own initiative tend to be trainwrecks. I know of only a couple female cryonicists who are wholesome mom types, and that is because their children anchor their minds in an outside reality and help to stabilize their emotions.

Seriously, it's a bad sign when a female cryonicist is older than 30, she has no children, and she then she starts to cryopreserve her cats when they die. *_(No, I am NOT making this up! I've seen women in cryonics do this.)_* This shows that the woman has failed to form organic relationships with the husband, children & grandchildren she would have had in a healthier, more patriarchal society. I don't see what these female cryonicists have to live for now, much less what they expect to get out of the possibility of "living forever" via cryotransport.

In fairness there are some male trainwrecks in the cryonics scene, like the gay sex tourists and the guy I knew slightly who died from a heroin overdose a few years ago. But on average the male cryonicists tend to run their lives better than the female ones.

[michaelvaladez]

I ASK WHY...NOTHING HERE MAKES SENSE HERE..OK YOU COME BACK TO WHAT, NO REALATVES, NO PET DOG, CLOTHES OUT OF FASHION, NO JOB, YOUR SINGLE AND NO LIFE BROKE ...THE COMPANY WENT UNDER AND I DON'T MEAN