Freezing !!

wildman said:
the earth being round was quackery, no scientific basis behind it whatsoever, until someone found out that scientific basis and suddenly it wasn't quackery anymore. That is of course unless you are on of these flat earth crack smokers.
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That's a myth. Eratosthenes proved the circumference of the earth with amazing accuracy with the tools and geographical knowledge at hand. Regardless, in terms of modern thinking - it is quackery. It however might be feasible with advancements in Nanotechnology to repair the cell damage.

But again, not with our current scientific outlook.
 
When I last read about it I don't think they'd yet perfected a method of preserving the body where it could be restored without significant and fatal damage at cell level? the sentiment seemed to be that we were 50-100 years away from the tech that could do that never mind the other advances needed to actually bring someone back that was preserved properly and fix anything that was wrong with them medically.
 
I can understand this for youngsters who are dying before their time due to illnesses which are still being widely researched but it's a pointless effort by old timers.

Bringing the dead back to life isn't an an area that's being researched or funded, is it?

Nevertheless, if you have the cash, there's plenty of companies who will gladly take it.
 
shifty_uk said:
I can understand this for youngsters who are dying before their time due to illnesses which are still being widely researched but it's a pointless effort by old timers.

Bringing the dead back to life isn't an an area that's being researched or funded, is it?

Nevertheless, if you have the cash, there's plenty of companies who will gladly take it.
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Honestly I'd be quite tempted even if it was just to be woken up for a few weeks 1000s of years from now and see just what happened to the human race during that time.
 
signs said:
i'm not religious at all , but they say that the soul leaves the body the second you die , so does that mean "when and if" they revive you you will have no soul ?
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so those people who have been in freezing cold water and technically dead and not breathing who are then brought back to life have no soul? :eek:
 
shifty_uk said:
I can understand this for youngsters who are dying before their time due to illnesses which are still being widely researched but it's a pointless effort by old timers.

Bringing the dead back to life isn't an an area that's being researched or funded, is it?

Nevertheless, if you have the cash, there's plenty of companies who will gladly take it.
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It is. They said they have cracked the ice crystal issue and can restore simple cells. Small animal kidneys can be frozen and restored now.

Still a way to go before a body can be without damage though.
 
How on earth do they do this at a fast enough rate after death for it to be remotely viable. Changes within the body happen so fast after death, pallor mortis and algor mortis start within minutes, rigor mortis not long after that and livor mortis is usually visible pretty fast too.

They must almost take people from ventilators or their death bed straight to some sort of super fast deep freeze within minutes. Blood become rubbish super fast too when it's not being circulated and deoxygenates.

Don't fancy being revived to have dead blood and stuff being burped around my circulatory system!
 
signs said:
they drain the blood apparently :eek:
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They'll never get all the blood out though, the closest they could get would be with an embalming pump and they're not 100%, embalmers still use a trocar to flood organs etc where pressure alone will not do the job.

Plus that's not a fast process, and in the mean time the process of decomposition ticks on. Bringing someone back to life once you've cured their fatal condition is one thing, reversing all the changes post mortem seems actually harder.
 
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