Do you want to be CRYOPRESERVED when you die?

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Several people have had their bodies frozen after their death, in a controversial process know as cryopreservation, or cryogenetics, in the hope that sometime in the future, the cause of their death may be cured and they can be unfrozen and live again. The temperature is kept very low, (−196 °C, −321 °F; 77 K) with liquid nitrogen typically used, in an attempt to keep the body's cells from disintegrating over time.

Most notably is the major league baseball star Ted Williams, who died at age 83. His head was severed from his body and they are separately stored in a cryogenetics facility in Arizona USA.

Would you want your body to be frozen and preserved this way? Why or why not?

buzzword · Accepted Answer

It seems silly. The chemicals used are often toxic to humans. Concentrations need to be tailored to specific cell lines to be successful, so if you are dunking an entire person in it with many different cell types it's impossible to optimize the concentration for every single cell. Thus some cells might do better than others. Cooling rate can affect cell degradation. When you have a vial of cells you can get a relatively uniform heat transfer, but in a large multicellular organism, clearly the cells close to the skin will be cooled first while the important ones in the middle of the body like your vital organs and brain will have a different rate of cooling. The same goes for degradation during recover when thawing. There are optimal thawing rates for different cell lines. So while one type of cell might do ok, all of the others might turn to soup. There is also slight degradation over time due to ionizing radiation. Temperature fluctuations can cause degradation as well, so if the power goes out, a computer chip fails, so human makes an error, etc. then more damage... It doesn't seem very feasible even if you have hope that someone will someday save you and breath life back into you. It might be easier to just preserve stem cells and clone a human.

OlderAndWiser · Accepted Answer

Folks who live a full life are generally ready to go when they confront death. I don't know that I would want to come back to a world 50-75 years in the future.

Kayla45 · Accepted Answer

Nope, when it’s my time then it’s my time, I’m religious so I personally believe in an afterlife. My own personal spiritual journey requires the human body to die, so my next spiritual journey can begin.

Anyway, that’s just the way I view it, many people nowadays is non religious, it’s a shame really…

purplepoppy · Accepted Answer

It's a scam to part dumb people with their money. Freezing destroys cells and these people are never coming back.  This is how you deal with a corpse this side of the pond

sage2021 · Answer

There was a building very near where I worked where bodies we being stored. Gave me the creeps! No, cause my luck an earthquake would happen and ruin the whole thing.

OfMiceandMen · Answer

Ahh, no thanks. I can only imagine the type of world it would be 30 or 50 years in the future. It's already going for shit.

exitseven · Answer

No, human cells are composed mostly of water. When water is frozen , it expands. When it expands the cells burst.

DrPepper12 · Answer

Nah. Not with current technology. Ask me again in a few millineum!

msc545 · Answer

Sure, nothing to lose. Worse case you end updead, which you are without this. Best case, you get to live again.

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