If someone offered to cryogenically freeze you for a thousand years, would you do it?

[her209]

State why or why not.

 

[coldmeat]

No because the world is going to end in 2012.

 

[KDOG]

No because the crap doesn't work, - you'll be dead as soon as your frozen....

 

[rocadelpunk]

No because I wouldn't fit into society. I would in effect be the only one of my kind. All my family and friends gone without ever a chance to say goodbye. The time to do something with my life is now - I have to believe that if my life is to have purpose it's to have purpose in this lifetime - not as the freakshow a 1000 yrs from now : P

On the other hand - sexbots and that food maker in the jetsons would be pimp

 

[TruePaige]

Originally posted by: KDOG
No because the crap doesn't work, - you'll be dead as soon as your frozen....

Read up on modern cryogenics. They have the whole "not forming ice in your cells" thing down.

Most of the major hurdles in fact have been conquered, the unfreeze process is a big problem, also the lack of laws that really help cryogenics are an issue.

You can't be frozen until legally dead, which isn't a big problem in most cases, but for some diseases that kill slowly it can really ruin the chances for people.

The big thing to me is, who would want to wake up with no friends, no family, no guarantee your money will be worth anything, the chance of being destroyed/robbed while frozen, the chance that you get stuck in a limbo like state...etc..

I wouldn't do it unless I could be frozen for 30 minutes to an hour then unfrozen to test the waters, also I would never do it for such an insane length of time.

 

[IronWing]

If I outlive my wife, then yes.

 

[guyver01]

Originally posted by: ironwing
If I outlive my wife, then yes.

If?

is there something about your wife's aging process we don't know about that would allow her to live for 1,000 years?

 

[MrPickins]

Only if I can be a delivery boy in space.

 

[dennilfloss]

Not a fan of the old thousand-year freezeburn.

 

[oogabooga]

Originally posted by: guyver01

Originally posted by: ironwing
If I outlive my wife, then yes.

If?

is there something about your wife's aging process we don't know about that would allow her to live for 1,000 years?

It's a secret process called nagging. Everytime she nags she steals a year from you and takes it for herself...

 

[TallBill]

I'd do it, worst that happens is that I remain dead.

 

[nageov3t]

assuming it's a magical world where it's guaranteed to work perfectly and at the end of it, I'd at least have enough money to be comfortably middle class in the future?

yeah, I totally would... I don't have a whole heckuvalot keeping me in the here and now.

 

[ChaoZ]

Hell yeah. I've always wanted to score with a one eyed mutant.

 

[IronWing]

Originally posted by: guyver01

Originally posted by: ironwing
If I outlive my wife, then yes.

If?

is there something about your wife's aging process we don't know about that would allow her to live for 1,000 years?

No. I meant I wouldn't do it until she is gone from this life. If she were to die before me then I figure I'm free to become a Ted Williams popsicle.

 

[Candymancan21]

I'd do it if it was free. Like someone said the worst that could happen is you'd stay dead for good. If there was the slightest chance that it would work then its an easy choice for me. So yes, but it would have to be a whole body freeze not the head in a jar freeze that some people do.

This reminds me of futurama

 

[IronWing]

Think of the possibilities for mischief. Historians would lap up your every utterance no matter how patently ridiculous.

 

[TurtleCrusher]

Originally posted by: oogabooga

Originally posted by: guyver01

Originally posted by: ironwing
If I outlive my wife, then yes.

If?

is there something about your wife's aging process we don't know about that would allow her to live for 1,000 years?

It's a secret process called nagging. Everytime she nags she steals a year from you and takes it for herself...

Sig worthy.

Bad ass.

 

[rockyct]

Nope, as for why, this song explains it up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJgIi-xm4tU

Frozen Man - James Taylor

Last thing I remember is the freezing cold
Water reaching up just to swallow me whole
Ice in the rigging and howling wind
Shock to my body as we tumbled in
Then my brothers and the others were lost at sea
I alone am returned to tell thee
Hidden in ice for a century
To walk the world again
Lord have mercy on the frozen man

Next words that were spoken to me
Nurse asked me what my name might be
She was all in white at the foot of my bed
I said angel of mercy I'm alive or am I dead
My name is William James McPhee
I was born in 1843
Raised in Liverpool by the sea
But that ain't who I am
Lord have mercy on the frozen man

It took a lot of money to start my heart
To peg my leg and to buy my eye
The newspapers call me the state of the art
And the children, when they see me, cry
I thought it would be nice just to visit my grave
See what kind of tombstone I might have
I saw my wife and my daughter and it seemed so strange
Both of them dead and gone from extreme old age
See here, when I die make sure I'm gone
Don't leave 'em nothing to work on
You can raise your arm, you can wiggle your hand(unlike myself)
And you can wave goodbye to the frozen man

I know what it means to freeze to death
To lose a little life with every breath
To say goodbye to life on earth
To come around again
Lord have mercy on the frozen man
Lord have mercy on the frozen man


Of course, the song is about James Taylor's father, but still...

 

[imported_Champ]

no...if it was a few months and perfectly safe I would probably, but I like my friends and family too much to miss their lives

 

[BoomerD]

The way we humans are fucking things up, I doubt the planet will survive, so why the hell would I? It'd really piss me off to sleep for 1000 years just to wake up dead...

 

[Soccerman06]

I assume the world will be like Futurama so I say yes and I want to be a delivery boy.

 

[z0mb13]

Only if they have a holodeck in 1000 years

 

[Synomenon]

Depends on my current situation in life when I'm offered this option.

How do you guys know we'll still be using money in a thousand years?

 

[Sea Moose]

I have read somewhere that scientists put dogs to sleep by freezing them, and reanimated them 8 hours later. (i will have to try and find the article.)
I think the removed their blood an replaced it with some special fluid.


But imagine the shrinkage after sitting in cold water for 100 years. You going to need to measure your weiner in nano's

 

[beat mania]

Topic Title: If someone offered to cryogenically freeze you for a thousand years, would you do it?
Topic Summary: You can't tell anyone about your decision

Is this a trick question to see who actually posts an answer?