Cryonics: How About a Raincheck?
Okay, maybe you’re not ready to make a decision about your “final arrangements.” Perhaps you’d rather hold out for something that’s not quite as . . . well, final. In that case, cryonics may be the option you’re looking for.
Cryonics is a method of preserving the bodies of humans and animals at very low temperatures (−200ºF or below). Proponents of cryonics hope to extend lifespans by holding cryopreserved “patients” in a suspended state until such time as medical science finds a way to revive and restore them to good health.
Presently, human cryopreservation is not reversible, and in the U.S., the procedure can only be performed on people who have been declared legally dead. But while the potential to revive cryopreserved humans is dependent on anticipated medical advances, cryonics itself is a modern reality.
The number of people willing to take a gamble on the future in the hope of extending their lives is significant: more than 100 are already preserved in cryonics facilities around the country, and more than 1,000 others have taken legal and financial steps to arrange for their own cryopreservation upon death.
If you think cryonics may be for you, get ready for some sticker shock. Costs for preservation and maintenance of a human body range from $28,000 to $150,000 or more. Cryonics organizations suggest that members pay the fee by taking out a life insurance policy and naming the organization as beneficiary.
Think its a bit sick to mess with the natural order of things … if we were ment to be frozen when we die then it wouldnt be such a hard and complicated procedure, plus its a very low possibillity that we will ever have the technology to revive cryogenic patients. And even if we do there are alot of complications such as cryoprotetant toxins in the brain, and major tissue and bone damage due to very low levels of temperature. And for the price that it is i think its best that people enjoy the quality of this life rather than spending a shit load on something that has no definated proof it can be done.
Besides who in the right mind wants to wake up in a couple of hundred years with no family (unless they get frozen with you that is) no money, no job, no home and no understanding of the world that they are in …
It’s a bit sick not to mess with the natural order of things when it kills people. Why turn down a chance at survival when there’s nothing left to lose? Resource consumption is far lower per person when you have a lot of people doing it, so on a large scale I expect it to be better for the environment/economy/etc. than burial or cremation ever was or could be. And more people waiting to have kids until after we develop space colonization is incalculably better.
Public resistance to this over the last 40 years is just a holdover of outdated and archaic beliefs, essentially a kind of stockholm syndrome about death. Of course it makes me sad to think most of my family and friends probably won’t come with me on this one-way trip, but all the more reason to treasure knowing them while I have the chance.
I think if you want to do it you should,if you don’t don’t.I personally would try it because even if there is just a slim chance that you will be revived but the down side is if you’re revived you might not remember who you were before and you might be revived during a war.