Category: Let's talk
The other night I watched an interesting prog about being buried alive..they then moved onto alternatives to the usual disposal..Nmely Cryonics the freezing of an entire body, or even more radical, the head..which is decapitated on death and frozen along with the body, in the hope that in the future they can be reunited aw sweet. Anyway would anyone here consider this as a means to cheat death, do you think it is at all possible, to thaw a body, frozen for say 20 years and return it to full working order..personally I think its insane and several steps too far...
ooooh no thanks. this kind of thing raises a lot of questions though, for those that believe that the soul goes to a different place when you die, if this is the case, will it come back when you're unfrozen 20 years down the track?
Hmm I couldn't say right off but the whole thing is just frightening
guess it might be a bit like waking up out of a coma 20 years later ... but who knows! the technology might not be around for centuries to come! you could wake up 2, 3 400 years later and everything you know will have changed ... uh uh no thanks.
You may think it's insane now, but if you told someone 200 years ago that they could takl to a friend who lived across the ocean in real time and hear that person's voice they wouldn't have believed you. If you want to bring the life after death into it, if god knows your frozen, and will be revived at a later date then why wouldn't your sole jhust hang in limbo, rather then going to heaven and coming back down again?
Yeah, the life after death thing is kind of interesting, and I wouldn't know what to say to that. Actually, we discussed cryonics in Speech class last week. As of yet, there's not even a way to unfreeze the body as it has something to do with that they'd have to see that the cells themselves are working in the first place. So because of this, I wouldn't even consider it, being that the people already frozen have no way of being brought back to life any time soon because of how they were frozen. Plus, SB is right. You'd wake up decades or centuries later, and it would pretty much be like starting over again because most of your relatives and friends would be gone, and technology would've moved on a good deal by then too.
Leilani
exactly! when i'm dead i'm dead! i'd not like it to be any other way!
actually when you think about the hole issue though it isn't even remotely practicle! for one thing you've got to find space for all these people to be frozen until such a time comes about that technology makes it possible to unfreez people again, but then what happens? suddenly you'll have hundreds, potentially even thousands, of human relics wandering round without a clue of what faces them in there new lives!
i'd be genuinely staggered if this ever becomes anything more than an interesting star trek plot! but just in case it does, i wish to state for the record here and now! i! want! no! part! in! this! lunacy!!! thank you...
I do know that when the body freezes and it's defrosted the major cells have been destroyed, but some of the vital organs have been found to survive.People have been brought back to life when all hope was lost.However the
decapitation theory scares me, mind you, the way stem cell research is progressing in the treatment of spinal injuries, maybe the punters think the re-attachment procedure is entirely possible..
I do know that when the body freezes and it's defrosted the major cells have been destroyed, but some of the vital organs have been found to survive.People have been brought back to life when all hope was lost.However the
decapitation theory scares me, mind you, the way stem cell research is progressing in the treatment of spinal injuries, maybe the punters think the re-attachment procedure is entirely possible..
I feel someone should be the radical here and say go for it! The advancement of science, progress of the human race, the adventure of the future etc... but it's not gonna be me. The whole idea squicks me to the back of beyond! And Harp raises the good point that to run the process on a large scale would be all kinds of unfeezable.
If the human race over reaches itself what will the consequences be for the next generation, who have to live with these mistake of nature, we will be laying our burdens on them why should they pay for our grandiose need to cheat death...
well, look at it this way goblin, they're already going to pay for so many other mistakes! dreadful forign polacy from the vast majority of the world's super powers! a total lack of regard to the envirement! a complete indifferents toward third world poverty! etc etc! what's one more thing to chuck into that melting pot?
god having just read that back i wish to be frozen even less! and i was 100 percent against the idea before!