What makes you think you'll be welcomed in the future? If you're among the first to be successfully thawed (after 1000 years), you'll be studied and probed like a lab rat. After the scientists are done with you, you'll be regarded as an alien or circus freak. How would you live? Where will you work? You think you'll wake up, turn on your computer, and start posting on sciforums? How presumptious and conceded to believe that future societies will support you and hold your hand just so you can satisfy your curiousity.
Cryonics
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It's "conceited" you fool, not conceded. Come on, concede the point, moron. You are another one that can be worm-food for all I care. In fact, let me encourage you to buy a burial plot today.
Yes you are "conceited", thank you for the correction.
My God are you for real? You actually believe dieing is an option. I shudder to think of future populations being infested with insecure idiots. I’m sorry if I threatened your dream of a second chance at life (where you would do things differently) – What, you’re first attempt is not going very well? Not happy with your (or your lack of) wife, kids, career? Well, not to worry. Soon it will be over and you’ll be revived one day in a peaceful world in a garden filled with roses and lilies. A world where you can “do things differently” and achieve your dreams of happiness. Just imagine, you won’t feel so insecure anymore! And you won’t feel the need to stomp on my worm infested grave!
My God are you for real? You actually believe dieing is an option. I shudder to think of future populations being infested with insecure idiots. I’m sorry if I threatened your dream of a second chance at life (where you would do things differently) – What, you’re first attempt is not going very well? Not happy with your (or your lack of) wife, kids, career? Well, not to worry. Soon it will be over and you’ll be revived one day in a peaceful world in a garden filled with roses and lilies. A world where you can “do things differently” and achieve your dreams of happiness. Just imagine, you won’t feel so insecure anymore! And you won’t feel the need to stomp on my worm infested grave!
dsdsds said:
Your question makes me ponder what it would be like if an individual from medieval times (~1000 a.d.) was revived today. I don't think the person would be considered under-evolved, but I do see where all of his/her mannerisms, habits, and culture may make it hard to adjust.
The person would be faced with the daunting task of learning a bunch of new technology (which is no problem since alot of it is easy to learn.......excluding that which requires literacy). Other than that, the experience would be comparable to living in a foreign coutry. Eventually, the person would learn our ways, and get used to it.
BTW-- this is just a guess. I don't have many facts to back it up other than an estimation based on human nature
domesticated om said:
I don't think it would be easy at all. I doubt it would even be possible for an "average" person from 1000 years ago to be able to adjust socially. (women's rights, racism, science vs religion, etc.. ).. Remember, we're not talking about a baby. We're talking about a wrinkled 80 year old geezer who would have to start over. A baby starts off with a clean slate. The geezer's slate would have to be practically wiped clean before he can be re-integrated. Where would he/she work? Macdonalds? Someone who can afford to be cryonically preserved would have a high social class today and would never accept working in the future's "Macdonalds".
Cottontop3000 said:
Well to you it would only seem like yesterday...literally...
You would have no memory of being frozen I'm guesssing. You just died, and then woke up. Or just woke up from life. It would be very confusing.
Possumking said:
It could also be very enlightening, and very exciting, imo. It might be a way of confirming or denying the existence of god and heaven or hell. If you died, were frozen, went to either heaven or hell, and then were revived, you might be either thankful or angry that you were revived. Either way, we might shed some light on the whole god issue.
Otherwise, if you were revived successfully, and didn't encounter heaven or hell, I would imagine that you'd be very thankful for the new lease on life, regardless of how different life may or may not be. Thrill-seeker's paradise.
Yes, freeze the brain. 
I like the thought of being a 7-11 slurpy in the 31st century.
I like the thought of being a 7-11 slurpy in the 31st century.The problem with cryonics is that it would most likely be super super expensive to get revived, and the $50,000 you paid will be absolutely nothing. Therefore your body is just going to be frozen for say 50-100 years, and then given a proper burial by a bankrupt company.
Still, I'll take my chances. Hopefully, ethics will play a larger role in future society than the almighty dollar.
thats why you have your life insurance invested in slow growth companies[water generation,nano tech,computers,semiconducters] and gold until your revived.or,if money is worthless then,they revive you because its the right thing to do.
its a win win.
or waste your money on a funeral and coffin and burial plot,let me know how that works out in the long run.
besides, a new body would be relitivly cheap to manufacture and produce in 50 years,like a new car or so,demand will lower the price to affordable,all hail the nano tech.
its a win win.
or waste your money on a funeral and coffin and burial plot,let me know how that works out in the long run.
besides, a new body would be relitivly cheap to manufacture and produce in 50 years,like a new car or so,demand will lower the price to affordable,all hail the nano tech.
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I've been thinking about it, and you know, we'd almost surely have to learn a new language when we are revived. Anyone who reads Shakespeare can tell you that a language can change quite a bit in four to five hundred years' time. And English has been doing a lot of evolving lately – borrowing words, innovating grammar, etc. Either we'll have to learn a new variety of English, or English will have declined in use and been replaced by a new world language, which will have also changed from its modern-day variant.
It's a bit unnerving to know that I'd wake up and have absolutely no one to talk to who understands English, German, or even French as I know them. But I'm also excited about it: Another language to learn.
It's a bit unnerving to know that I'd wake up and have absolutely no one to talk to who understands English, German, or even French as I know them. But I'm also excited about it: Another language to learn.
Solution: Memory/Knowledge implants. You could learn the whole body of human knowlege in less time than it takes to cook dinner today. If we can learn to repair cells at the molecular level, we can and will learn what memory and thoughts consist of, at the molecular level. It will then be an easy step to give a revived person all the knowledge he/she needs to survive and prosper.
I say everyones being under ambitious and that a cure for death could be found in the next 20-30 years if the world got together. But theres no chance of that happening is there. Death is wrong. Suffering is wrong. I guess since i have no chance of being frozen and the world will never get together like it needs to to defeat death that i'm going to be waiting until they can bring you back somehow without needing the body. But this sorta tech would take alot longer to develop. All the cyronics patients will have been living for ages.
You know that most cryonics organizations will accept a life insurance policy as payment, right? If you didn't know this, look into it. It'll cost you something every month until you die, but it is easier for most people than plopping down $50,000 - $150,000 at one go.LeeDa said:
I hope so.