Would you freeze yourself so you could thaw out when they found a cure?

@fec139 (810)
United States
April 2, 2008 11:11am CST
Yesterday on a Barbara Walters special, she interviewed the owners of a cryogenic lab. What you can do, for $70,000, is freeze your body when you die. They drain out all the blood and fluids, and replace it with a special chemical. Then, when a cure is discovered for the disease that killed you, they thaw you out, cure you, and you live again. But you could be frozen now and woken up a hundred years from now. Barbara interviewed a family who has already paid for this to be done to the parents and kids. The kids know about it and were talking about it. But what happens when they wake you? Do you have resources to live? What if you woke up 200 years later to a whole different world? What is the disease you had badly disfigured you? Would you have to have surgery to fix yourself too?? Would you do this if you had the money? Could you have yourself frozen and then thawed out in the future?
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@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
2 Apr 08
I really don't think I would ever do that unless I was young at the time and my husband would be cured too and we could be together again. If that was not the case, then I would not want to come back to this corrupted world. I may do it for my daughter if she is still living though.
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@rebelann (113176)
• El Paso, Texas
28 Feb 20
I don't see why anyone would do this unless it was to keep a person living through space travel but who knows if that would even work.
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@tjades (3590)
• Jamaica
2 Apr 08
I dont think so Fec139. I have more faith in a cure being found than in being brought back to life. I would just allow a family member or a deserving person enjoy that money and die in peace.
@rebelann (113176)
• El Paso, Texas
28 Feb 20
I have to agree with you.
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• United States
2 Apr 08
I could not do this. This to me personally is unnatural. Another thing is think about the friends and family that would no longer be around. I wouldn't like to come back to a place that my friends and family were no longer here. Also who knows how long a cure would take if ever. Unless I put money aside for when they brought me back so I would have some way to support myself. I just couldn't do it.
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@rebelann (113176)
• El Paso, Texas
28 Feb 20
Yep, you made a really good point. Also, no matter how much money a person has now the issue would be if currency would be the same hundreds of years from now.
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@TriciaW (2441)
• United States
2 Apr 08
I wouldn't do it. I just think I would rather stick to the natural course of life. I can not even imagine waking up many years from then and trying to adjust to the new world. What if it was bad? What if times had changed and the person you were wasn't excepted in the new world. You wouldn't have any of the family you knew with you if it was 100s of years later. I just wouldn't do it even if I did have the money.
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@rebelann (113176)
• El Paso, Texas
28 Feb 20
I wouldn't either, it would probably be much harder than we realize to try to fit in with a time that is 200 years older than what we knew.
• Philippines
2 Apr 08
I would like to try this out but before they push me into a big cryogenic stasis I would put a few investments first that would earn interest over time. I mean, banks would still exist in the future, aren't they? This would ensure that I have the proper funds to utilize when they thaw me out and try to cure me.
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@rebelann (113176)
• El Paso, Texas
28 Feb 20
Who can say that the financial world will be the same in 100 years as it is today, if not then your investment might be a waste of your money.
• Australia
2 Apr 08
I don't know. If I knew for a certainty that it would work, then I may. It's said that Walt Disney did this but last I heard it was just a rumor. Interesting discussion!
@rebelann (113176)
• El Paso, Texas
28 Feb 20
I imagine it would cost a whole lot more than $70,000 to stay in such a state for more than a couple months. Imagine the energy costs needed to do this.