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I think many people would be happy with this, I'll start the whip round.
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I think many people would be happy with this, I'll start the whip round.
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No amount of future technology can raise the dead.
The freezing process makes no sense at all since she was already dead. It has a maximum window of 2 minutes.
Those energy orbs from Demolition Man that freeze people instantaneously might be possible in the future but until then freezing is fatal.
The freezing process makes no sense at all since she was already dead. It has a maximum window of 2 minutes.
Those energy orbs from Demolition Man that freeze people instantaneously might be possible in the future but until then freezing is fatal.
What a daft statement, if you'd told someone 200 years ago that we'd have a worldwide web of interconnected devices allowing instant communication and sending of money/documents/etc they'd have said exactly the same.
I can imagine it now. Lying on my deathbed, surrounded by my family, thinking about my life and what I've achieved. I've done most of what I've wanted to do. I've travelled the world, had a successful career and met a wonderful lady with whom I had the pleasure of creating some amazing children... but one thing has always eluded me: Half-Life 3.
In one last-ditch effort to secure the possibility of playing the holy grail of games one day, I call my solicitor to change my will and leave the kids with nothing. Instead, I pay for myself to be frozen with an agreement that when I awake, there should be a top of the range PC waiting for me. A few hours later, I die alone.
It is the year 2105. I am pulled out of a fridge by strange men in lab coats and taken to an observation room where there is a strong media presence. I am the first human of the past to awake, and the world is awaiting my first words. "H...Half...Half-Life 3?", I finally mutter. The collective shaking of heads causes me to go into cardiac arrest. I die again.
In one last-ditch effort to secure the possibility of playing the holy grail of games one day, I call my solicitor to change my will and leave the kids with nothing. Instead, I pay for myself to be frozen with an agreement that when I awake, there should be a top of the range PC waiting for me. A few hours later, I die alone.
It is the year 2105. I am pulled out of a fridge by strange men in lab coats and taken to an observation room where there is a strong media presence. I am the first human of the past to awake, and the world is awaiting my first words. "H...Half...Half-Life 3?", I finally mutter. The collective shaking of heads causes me to go into cardiac arrest. I die again.
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Just setting up the GoFund Me page now. Tag line is 'Do ACME a favour but mainly yourself' 
. I do find the whole thing rather strange, is there a limit on how long they can keep the bodies for?
. I do find the whole thing rather strange, is there a limit on how long they can keep the bodies for?
It would not be the same though. In 1916, freedom of information was virtually non existent, no internet, no mobile phones, no "digital revolution". Today we have all of those things and are envisioning technologies that will be available in the year 2100, and most of them are not SciFi but close to reality.
So someone being frozen now, will have a better time 100 years from now at adapting to the new world compared to someone from 1916 adapting to today's world.
I admit I was replying in isolated context, my bad 
But my point still stands, a modern day person being frozen for a hundred years would have no trouble adapting to the future, whereas someone from a hundred years back certainly would!
But my point still stands, a modern day person being frozen for a hundred years would have no trouble adapting to the future, whereas someone from a hundred years back certainly would!
Things will be different but not as different as going from a world with no technology. Unless that person has been living under a rock before being frozen.
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I dunno about this.
What happens to your manifest (soul if you're religious) when you're frozen? That teenager died last month but with her brain still being supplied with oxygen to prevent damage. So is her manifest still in there? Or will she de-manifest and someone else manifests as her when she comes back from the dead?
Similar debate to teleportation. If the body is deconstructed at pod A and reconstructed at pod B, what happens to the manifest?
What happens to your manifest (soul if you're religious) when you're frozen? That teenager died last month but with her brain still being supplied with oxygen to prevent damage. So is her manifest still in there? Or will she de-manifest and someone else manifests as her when she comes back from the dead?
Similar debate to teleportation. If the body is deconstructed at pod A and reconstructed at pod B, what happens to the manifest?
When I was reading up on it before I'm sure they said there was a window of about 30 minutes to get the body down to a low temperature (not cryo) which then gave a bit more time before it had to be cryogenically frozen.
Still the problem remains that almost no matter what developments are made in the future the current methods of freezing aren't considered likely to ever be reversible though they are fairly sure that at some point in the medium term future it will be possible to freeze in a manner that would be recoverable from but still a long way from the reversal end of the process.