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No way would I want to be brought back. For what? It would be like Rip Van Winkle awakening to an unfamiliar world, where everyone you knew is dead and gone. One earthly life is enough, and I look forward to my spiritual life once this body bites the dust.
Plus future America could be similar to what was featured in the movie Idiocracy. I will pass up that opportunity thank you very much.
I voted no. Humanly speaking, death means separation of body from soul. Therefore, if soul separate in body it might have no chance in returning. Since our body is designed like dust so eventually it will become rotten. So, preserving it is just absurd.
You wanna bet a thousand years of life at hard labor on that?
Every system ever devised tends to flow gradually toward oligarchy. In your future, exactly how are laws and administrative procedures going to be made, and how will you ensure that there will never be a movement against the status quo, and would you want to live in a time when dissent is impossible?
It will never be possible for human iife to exist without two things: An administrative system, and people who are discontent that the administrative system does not serve their needs. Either or both of those leaves the door open for oppression.
Well, there would always be the option of committing suicide if cryogenic preservation and a successful revival won't work out for you, no?
What if they enslave the iced people. Or do random scientific experiments with them? What if aliens kill everybody and enslave the iced ones?
Besides, unless you plan on dying when you're 20, why would you want them to preserve your old, wrinkled body? You're still gonna be old when they wake you.
Once is enough! I would rather have my money go to the people I know than a company I don't know.
I can picture people being frozen for a very long time and the moment they are unfrozen that cataclysmic asteroid hits the Earth! At least it helped take away their chills!
By the way, you are officially dead when they freeze you, correct? If your were not they would be guilty of murder? If you are officially dead, how long after your death do the turn you into a block of ice? Does it happen immediately?
I'd say no but others with a zest for life whom have a terminal illness, should give it a go. What an incredible experience it would be to see the future, since you were going to die anyway, you could always bump yourself later in the future if it sucked too much. The key would be to buy stocks or small collectable items that will appreciate in value, stored in a vault or on your person while you chill in the cryo pod.
This brings a thought, when the freezing/thawing cryo process is finally perfected and they can do it to anybody for 10k or something, with the technology proven to work, would there be lots of people whom might want to give up a lifetime of work and live in the future as a millionare? Even now, you could find investment firms which specialize in diversified stocks from all over the world, it's a pretty safe bet that over 50 or 100 years, a meager investment could easily pay off big, given the nature of compounded interest and diversified investing. There would be firms that specialize in that sort of thing. So in a cryo proven world, this might sound very attractive to someone 20 years old in a tough economy, to just wait it out in the cryo chamber. Forget the star trek stuff, money will be relevant until the second coming, there will always be rich and poor, workers and elites, now and 100 years from now.
Historians and the public would be curious about you, I don't think it would be that hard to make new friends and ham it up about how you did things 80 years ago, you might be in demand for speaking engagements and become famous and popular. Men looking for an "old fashioned girl" might be willing to sweep such a lady off her feet, or women looking for a masculine man of the oil age, show her your stuff, ask her to get you a cold beer out of the fridge and pinch her butt, she will be happy to please because you would be a stud compared to men of the future.
I want the technology to be proven (the unthawing part) before I try it...... but heck yeah, when that happens, sign me up ! They will probably be caps on how many people they would allow to cryo at any one time in history, to prevent labor shortages and cope with storing too many people.
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