>As of 2014, about 250 people have been cryogenically preserved in the U.S., and around 1500 more have signed up to be preserved.
Lets go smash them.
I really can't stay
(But baby, it's cold outside)
I've got to go away
(But baby, it's cold outside)
Freezing living tissue destroys the cell makeup.
They're dead forever just like the rest Of us
jokes on them they wont get the new iPhone
>>53724853
Kyoko pls
>>53724912
These images are my favourites. Where can I get more?
>>53724785
Has anyone ever been "revived" from being frozen?
>>53724985
Not necasarrily, it's just that all the different tissues in our bodies need to be at different STABLE temps. We can't have ice crystals forming, they have saved organs for months on end.
>>53724912
im sittin out and smokin herb, because my boss is on my motha fuckin nerves, but i gotta take it cause it's cold outside (it's cold outside)
>>53724785
They're not just vegetables
They're frozen vegetables
>>53725319
Don't be ridiculous
Has anyone been cured of cancer by cannabis oil?
>freeze self
>revived in 2100
>upon being revived, I'm microchipped
>dystopian Earth
>basically all the same problems as today, but 10x worse
>still barely explored the solar system
>people still talking about putting a base on Mars
>no flying cars
>>53725289
I have this one, not sure what this meme is but I sure like it. Kinda makes you wonder how damaged we will become when VR will make anime real. And there's nothing we can do to stop it.
>>53725426
Blame everyone.
For not making anime real.
can you imagine being so afraid of dying that the last thing you spend money on is to roleplay as an ice cube
>>53725401
>Get diagnosed with testicular and prostate cancer at the age of twenty-three
>Decide I'm not going to do chemo
>Quit job, move in with aunt and uncle in the desert of Idaho
>For the next six months I smoke Cascadian weed every day and eat a strict vegan diet
>Doctors are amazed and tell me that my cancer is completely gone and it's likely because of the weed.
>>53725465
Chocolates is better than grapes
>>53725465
Woah it's like science but the opposite
>>53724785
>get frozen
>never get woken up
>>53725455
Meh, why not?
If you've got the money left over for it, might as well.
I'm not afraid of dying, but if I have a chance to live some more, why wouldn't I take it, even if it's extremely small?
>>53724785
That's an actual thing?
What the fuck.
>>53725465
congrats, your diet was so bad it was like chemo and was slowly killing you, just killing the cancer faster
>>53725536
Welcome to the 90s
>>53725536
if you've got a lot of money but not a lot of time to live, why not?
you either die, or you get frozen and maybe you get unfrozen and cured.
And zero of them will be successfully unfrozen.
Working cryonic freezing is beyond our current technology. The majority of cells are destroyed. That includes brain cells. There is no realistic chance that the brain will be intact enough to be salvageable.
There is no way of ensuring that the body will actually be kept even if it is frozen. Even if the company does its job flawlessly, it will eventually go bust and the body will be discarded. It also isn't likely the company will do a good job. There is no real incentive for them to do so. The dead person won't be around to sue them. Who will make sure they properly store the body when the person's been dead for 50 years?
>>53725587
Eh, if you want new customers, last thing you want is peoples relatives/news saying you did a bad job.
Still, not like they were going to spend the money on anything else.
Maybe it'll get a bit better in the near future also.
>>53725455
I am terrified of dying and not ashamed to admit that. The problem here isn't fear of death. The problem is wishful thinking. Freezing your body is a geeky form of hoping you go to Heaven, just like the Singularity is a geeky form of the Rapture. There is little reason to think cryonics works and plenty of reason to think it doesn't, but wishful thinking is powerful.
>>53725615
So you have to preserve the bodies for five years. Why preserve them for fifty years? There's no incentive. They could easily take the money and run.
>Still, not like they were going to spend the money on anything else.
Of course they were. That's what wills are for. The money would go to their friends and family. Failing that, it would go to charity.
>>53725694
You should kill yourself now to ensure you have a swift and painless death. Putting it off will only make your chances of no pain worse.
>>53724785
What a nice way to waste some cash before you die, just throw couple thousands dollars to someone to freeze up your dead casket - gj capitalism into memeing people.
>>53725536
Yes but you have to be dead in order for them to cryo you.
Couldn't be done otherwise, they're replacing all the blood in your body with some anti-freezing gel.
Let's not add up that by the time all the preparations are done the brain degrades to a very shitty stage.. + everything in there is kinda permanently destroyed once the freezing happens.
It's just a meme.
>>53725783
Failing at that the state collects it
Even IF they figured out a way to successfully unfreeze you, which I doubt someone will, what guarantee is there that your brain will even retain you as in YOU inside it.
Either way, you can't escape death. Once it happens, why come back? Eternal sleep or to infinity and beyond, nigga I'm out.
I miss Walt Disney too OP.
>>53726032
>The urban legend suggesting Walt Disney was cryopreserved is false; he was cremated and interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery.
>>53724985
They replace the water in cells with glycol or a similar substance to prevent cell death
Fucking autistic shit
>>53724785
Ok, time for some science. Freezing mostly destroying cells, just because water gets volume wile freezing/unfreezing process. So for successful cryogenic process we need to replace water with some other fluid, that doesn't changing properties while freezing/unfreezing, containing and etc.
>>53725783
>getting mad about how dead people spend their money
Wew, lad. I assure you that the people who froze themselves have so much cash that it doesn't matter.
>>53725783
None of that is them using the money.
And you'd at least want to preserve them for the life of the children, maybe grandchildren.
I presume they will want to visit grandfathers chamber occasionally.
>>53725547
Severely underrated post
>>53726252
So, for that procedure object must eat, drink, piss with that fluid about 6 months before death. Because I don't think you can replace water for 10 minutes while clinical death.
>>53726252
>Ok, time for some science.
Time for some science indeed.
>we need to replace water with some other fluid, that doesn't changing properties while freezing/unfreezing, containing and etc.
There you go: In 2005, Alcor completed construction of a cold nitrogen gas cooling system for attempting vitrification of whole bodies. Also, another cryoprotectant solution suitable for large system vitrification had been validated in brain and whole animal studies. This solution, called M22, did not permit vitrification of all parts of the body because some tissues absorb cryoprotectant too slowly. However it seemed adequate for vitrification of tissues with a rich supply of blood vessels, such as the brain. Therefore it should be possible to vitrify the brain during cryopreservation of the entire body, not just the head. The rest of the body would experience varying degrees of vitrification and freezing during the process, with freezing injury reduced by presence of M22 solution.
This “M22 procedure” is Alcor’s new cryopreservation technology. M22 solution will now be used for both whole body and neuropreservation cases, making B2C obsolete. It also marks an important technology transition as Alcor begins to move beyond just structure preservation toward better preservation of biochemistry and functional capacity. The advantages of M22 over B2C are discussed below.
>>53726368<<wrong
They were delivering pizzas for I.C. Weiner.
>>53724853
God damn it Kyouko
