Cryogenics...

[Shaq]

"Science or Science Fiction?"


Yeah, I stole a title from the Today Show...sue me, it's late and I'm sweepy...


But for those of you who want to post some information it would be appreciated...

Would anyone consider this method of preservation after death?

If it were possible to be thawed out and revived in the future would the moral ramifications bother any one?


HONEST OPINION (I do this to warn people now): but I think it's a little sad..***** is great and everything but nature has a way of...ending it. When you've already fought as hard as you can to stay alive and you failed to freeze yourself to live later is a last grasp at life that I tihnk is not only pointless but also pitiable.

To be blunt...just die already...I would hope that when I'm about to check out that I will have been satisfied enough that I would want to remain alive but that I'd understand that I couldn't and accept it...


Plus I don't wan to have cold nuts...

 

[Laurel]

Yes. I would. I don't want to die.

 

[427cobra]

i don't see where it matter much anyway. you're dead when they freeze you. if it works, cool! if not you're still dead and haven;t lost that much

 

[Shaq]

Yes. I would. I don't want to die.

Why not? (These next words may one day come back to bite me) dying can't be but so bad...

 

[Shaq]

i don't see where it matter much anyway. you're dead when they freeze you. if it works, cool! if not you're still dead and haven;t lost that much

It doesn't really matter....it costs a bunch but so does a ground burial...more the attitude of the person that requests it to be done that intrigues me...

 

[Private Vasquez]

Freezer burn isn't nice to plastic.

 

[427cobra]

It doesn't really matter....it costs a bunch but so does a ground burial...more the attitude of the person that requests it to be done that intrigues me...

no argument there. sometimes i think ya gotta be a bit daft to do some of the stuff out there. but then again, you can't take it with you, lol

 

[Needssome]

I wouldn't do it.....Of course I believe in reincarnation and life after death. Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. Our life energy has to go somewhere after death. Our bodies are just vessels anyways. Frankly, if I get old and I die that's fine. I wouldn't mind trading this body in for a younger model!

 

[Shaq]

no argument there. sometimes i think ya gotta be a bit daft to do some of the stuff out there. but then again, you can't take it with you, lol

I'm blowing my casket money on a month in Vegas...

 

[427cobra]

I'm blowing my casket money on a month in Vegas...

lmao! i like the way you think my friend. like i said you can;t take it with you

 

[Unclebill]

Cryogenic preservation works when the structure is very small, a few cells in size. This is why it works succesfully with things like sperm and ova.

The particular size limit I don't know but trying to preserve and possibly reanimate something the size of the human body will not work with present technology. Freezing of a large organism causes extensive damage to the cells.

I believe the explanation is that temperature change takes place gradually as deeper and deeper layers of cells freeze. If the freezing could permeate the entire structure and freeze all cells virtually simultaneously, the damage would not occur so extensively if at all but with our current knowledge of physics, we can't cause the simultaneous decrease in temperature throughout the organism.

Hence significant cellular damage results.

 

[Spinaroonie]

Give me the lucid dream option.

 

[DevilBoy79]

its possible, think about it hypothermia is like a form of cryogenics, just not as sever, i figure if you wanna freeze yourself then go for it,

 

[JerseyBoy]

Oh hell, Mom just stuck mine (GI Joes that is) in some ziplock baggies, good as new to this day (broken arms, burnt faces, ripped clothes an all)

No worries PV, your half-life will keep you around a good long time...

Freezer burn isn't nice to plastic.