Would you consider deep-freezing your body after death?

The first Australian facility for human body freezing is set to open in 2022. According to the article on news.com.au, there are already 32 people signed up paying $50,000 each to have their body frozen and stored post-death at the Southern Cryonics facility.

No human has ever been frozen and bought back to life and it's been made very clear that the facility did not have the technology to bring people back to life.

Scientists have been able to thraw frozen ancient Russian roundworms back to life, but many have stated that the human body cannot be preserved due to the complex molecular structure.

“The technology for freezing people, let's call it ‘suspending’ them because it’s way below freezing temperatures, but suspending them is reasonably well known,” Mr Tsolakides said.

“However, the technology for bringing people back is for the future. I want to make that very clear, there’s no guarantees.

“The idea is that there‘s some possibility, it might be 10 per cent or it might be 50 per cent."

What do you think? It's not like you can take the cash with you after you die and the price of a funeral these days is a good portion of the fee being paid for the freezing process!

Would you consider freezing your body after death?

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"No human has ever been frozen and bought back to life and it's been made very clear that the facility did not have the technology to bring people back to life." Seems some people like to gamble even after they die. Would you really want to come back to life some time in the future, when all your family and friends have probably died and you have no assets and face the prospect of life in a world vastly different to what we have now?  Don't think so!

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I suppose after you are dead you would not feel the cold.

But I do believe that there will come a time when the technology will allow to resuscitate someone from a frozen state and possibly will be able to cure you of what you died from.

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If you could afford to get frozen , I would think you would also have enough funds to bring you back to luxury :)

It would be terrible to be frozen then defrosted in 30 years time, because there was a cure for some dreaded decease I had died with. No more family re-unions, no more friends and the world would be so far advanced that I would not be able to cope. 

I don't think I would waste money on the freezing -- I would rather make sure someone had the use of the money.

I won't be having any fancy funeral either -- in fact, I am thinking of leaving my body to the Uni as my Mother did

 

A short answer no!

However, since I have had this "flippin" stroke it has has made me realize how complex the body is. 

A small part of my brain has been damaged and it has damaged part of the area that retains the ability to read some of what I need to understand.  I say part, not all of the reading was affected it appears.  But part of the eye has been blinded.

No when you think of that, think of the rest of the body that would be frozen and destroyed in the process of freezing!

How much of the rest of the body will need to be restored, not just one tiny bit of the brain and eye.

I cannot imagine now that this is possible, it is science fiction to be able to bring back to life the whole body.

It makes a person realize how complex the human body is, and it is a crying shame that most people do not appreciate that they have a body that operates well.   To destroy or damage the body is something you should do lightly.

I have never smoked or drank wine or beer and yet this has happened to my body.

My late mother lived till her 91 year I thought perhaps I may have, but I doubt it very much now.

 

 

Yes Celia it is strange how DNA jumps many generations sometimes -- some of your former relations may have had such as you,  I have what my Mother had and also some of what my Father had -- my son has his Fathers side of the DNA.

If I was young and knew what I now know I would have a test b4 I had a child and if there was any chance of such I would not have any children.

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