Does this sound crazy to you?

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After a lot of study and research I plan to be frozen on my death.  EVERYONE I have told about this says that is crazy.  They keep telling me that once you die and are in heaven or hell in my case you can not get out.  You can NEVER come back to life.

I try to explain my reasoning for being frozen with this story.  Say it is 1921 and a doctor says that someday when you have a heart problem, a doctor will cut the heart out of a dead person, then cut your heart out, replace it with the heart from the dead person and you will continue to live.   In 1921 that doctor would have been labeled as totally crazy and probably lose his/her license to practice medicine.  100 years later, this is a common medical practice.

My point is that medicine makes rapid advances and no one can predict what can be done in the future.  They might find a way cure what killed you and revive you if your body is still in the same condition as when you died.  I was also worried that freezing will destroy all the cells in your body.  That is not the case anymore.  When you are frozen, almost all the water in your cells is replaced with an antifreeze solution that will not destroy your cells.  What little damage is done can be fixed NOW with nanocomputers.

Does what I plan to do sound crazy to you?  Your opinion please.

a · Answer

Dead tissue will NEVER come back PERIOD.
Once frozen, all organs are destroyed beyond all hope and it is merely pure fantasy to think it will ever live again.
You are merely being suckered by a scam artist

? · Answer

Why would you want to to .  Heaven is amazing

Anonymous · Answer

I fear that you will be too far gone and have brain damage IF you are revived.

Anonymous · Answer

Yes.  You are crazy.  You don't have the $millions needed to pay the cryogenics. .And they still have not solved the problem of cell destruction.  Freeze some lettuce.  Then thaw it out and try to pick it up.

Anonymous · Answer

No it’s not crazy at all. 
Yes in future we may be able to bring back dead people.
I often wonder what happens to people with a pacemaker who die.... do they die? Dose their pacemaker keep bringing them back and they are unable to die until it’s been removed? Even if they were so old and poorly and ready for death but this pacemaker just wouldn’t let them slip away.
However back to the freezer talk, yes it sounds like a good idea and I’m sure it’s been thought of before. Things advance all of the time, babies are made in test tubes, you can design your own baby down to the gender and eye and hair colour, 100 years ago this would never have been thought of.

I’f it’s what you want for your body then it’s not up to anyone else.

Anonymous · Answer

You obviously haven't thought things through.
IF a cure is found why would anyone in the future want to revive you.  You would not have any useful skills, you would be a drain on society, no one you know now would be alive, you would be basically an anachronism walking around.
What would you do, what could you possibly offer the future to warrant all the money and resources that would be spent on you.

Lab Guy · Answer

Sounds crazy because what you desire is not solely that you live in a vacuum but to live in an environment that you are very used to and crave. You want to follow a transitional progression in your environment in a historical perspective. You want to live it and experience it. You don't want to be frozen and then a hundred years later be revived in a world you have no connection to nor people you don't know who will see you as a freak. You would not have the safety blankets of the web or TV as you know it. Nothing in your environment would provide mental relief.

You would be a basket mental case that would be longing to go back in time to a time you could relate to and share a common experience. You would have nothing in common with people at that time or the environment.

Robert J · Answer

The concept is fine - once a way is found to freeze tissue without damaging the cells, and that cannot be done at present.

Freezing causes ice to form within cells, and that often causes physical damage to the cells, if not simply bursting them as the ice crystals expand.

Once that has happened, there in no possibility of revival, even if there would have been before freezing.

Single cell organisms can be frozen and some survive thawing, as not all are damaged severely - but for such as a human, having eg. 50% of you body cells (including brain cells) die at the same time is not something you can survive.

? · Answer

I'm already falling behind I can't imagine being unfrozen in a thousand years and trying to figure out how to live my life

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