If cryogenic freezing was succesful...

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Would you cryogenically freeze yourself?

  • Yes

    Votes: 41 58.6%
  • No

    Votes: 29 41.4%

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SomeStrangeSin
And you had the oppurtunity to choose to freeze yourself and come back at any certain time you want or dont do it and die sooner then later ha.
remember if you do freeze yourself you wont be able to see your family anymore,friends,sons/daughers,wife/gf.

if you do the freezing then you will get to see the future and such.

explain your decision and how long you would freeze yourself

I for one would do it just because theres a lot of questions that dont have answers especially things to do with space and religion and stuff like that I want to know these things.
I would probably sign up for 1,000 years be here for the turn of the generation like the year 2999. things would be so different think of all the things that might evolve or happen in that long of a time.
 
What if life on earth or this planet itself stops existing before you "unfreeze"?
 
Well, obviously we'd be screwed if everyone did this. But I would yes (provided that my wife can as well). I'd do it in hopes of finding a cure for whatever it is that I have to prevents me from having children.

The way to do this would be to put a large sum of money in several fund managers' care and have them manage investments while you're out. Hopefully when you wake up there will be a rather large sum of money waiting for you (and hopefully whatever property you had is worth quite a bit more as well). If you play your cards right, you can wake up a wealthy person.
 
I wouldn't. Why freeze over history when I can make history? I don't have any illnesses or anything so I'm straight.
 
So you would not be interested in seeing the future? I thought about it to what if people dont exist when you come to or there was a huge war and everything died from some sort of virus weapon
 
So you would not be interested in seeing the future? I thought about it to what if people dont exist when you come to or there was a huge war and everything died from some sort of virus weapon

The future presents itself to me one second at a time. I'd rather be alive in the present to make sure some asshole doesn't **** up the future for my posterity. But that's just for my circumstances because I don't have an incurable disease or disorder or anything.
 
I would not, because there is no guarantee that the future will be better then the present. Everyone always has a very optimistic view of the future, but it is far from a guarantee.
 
And you had the oppurtunity to choose to freeze yourself and come back at any certain time you want or dont do it and die sooner then later ha.

damn i put this in the wrong forum can someone move it to general

I mean the rumble strip sorry

The edit button is your friend when you need to add something immediately after making a post. Also, please do both yourself and all of us a favor, and use it to add proper punctuation and fix all the spelling/capitalization mistakes.

It may seem like a small thing to care about, but it helps everybody: it makes you look smarter, and it keeps the post quality higher for us.
 
I would not, because there is no guarantee that the future will be better then the present. Everyone always has a very optimistic view of the future, but it is far from a guarantee.

While it is far from a guarantee, it has been generally correct. Knowing what you do about the year 2010, would you rather live in 1810? or 1010?
 
There's no guarantee that the future will be better if everyone goes and freezes themselves. :lol:
 
No. My bank account probably won't still be around at that point, and I'd want some money when I come back alive. The only time I would is maybe when I'm getting really old and freezing myself would basically be a visit to the future, just to see what it would have been like. And then I'd want to die before too long. But I'm perfectly happy living in the present, thanks.

Although, if I did invent something awesome, it'd be really cool to freeze myself to see how that takes off in the future.
 
I'd live my life to it's peak, and then a few days before I die, I'd freeze myself, and have myself defrosted after a hundred years. I'd stick around of those few days, looking around at the future, playing with new technology, and speaking with my descendants. Then I'd simply drift off, knowing what the world is like.
 
This would be my story:

I would call everyone I care about, my parents, my girlfriend, brother, sister and friends. I would try my best to visit each and every one of these individuals, perhaps buy a little present or give each something to remember me by, for when I unfreeze at my desired point in time they would be no more. You could say that I will be completely alone when I choose to unfreeze. My point in time will be very specific, but more on that later.

I would seal away my home and probably let the government know that it will be unhabited for some time, maybe even comission some of my acquaintances or neighbors to watch over it for as long as they can in order to preserve it as much as humanly possible. I would terminate my credit cards, my subscriptions, everything; I would give away my awesome dog. Sell my computer and maybe my car (thinking about this, it will be a classic once I unfreeze!). Finally I would go to the cryogenic center, dish out some bucks and have them freeze me.

Then, when the time I estipulated finally comes, probably 60 to 80 years after I was frozen the guys at the lab would unfreeze me (probably 'a la Austin Powers) I would greet them and try to find out as much as I can about what has changed since this whole endeavor started. I would then head home.

But first, I would go to my local Best Buy and buy a copy of the newly-released GT5 for the Playstation 12. Which still doesn't have cross-game voice chat.
 
I was waiting for the payoff afraid that it wasn't coming Coxis... but you didn't disappoint.
 
I'm more interested in replacement parts to make ourselves live those 100-1000yrs extra. With the technology that's improving with artificial organs and such, you could book yourself in 30 or 40yrs to get yourself a tune up by having them install artificial hearts, lungs, livers and such to make you live for double the lifespan of what you currently could live to and if they started malfunctioning, you could order replacements to keep yourself going again and again.

I wouldn't want to be frozen and wake up 500-1000yrs later to find out that the human race are slaves to some alien lifeforms from some distant galaxy light years away.
 
My answer would be no, I don't want to wake up and find out that everyone on Earth is speaking Russian...

...or everyone is dead...

...or that we have been taken over by some complex alien race...

...or that the average IQ of man is lower than room temperature in Minnesota in the wintertime...

...seeing a pattern here?
 
My answer would be no, I don't want to wake up and find out that everyone on Earth is speaking Russian...

...or everyone is dead...

...or that we have been taken over by some complex alien race...

...or that the average IQ of man is lower than room temperature in Minnesota in the wintertime...

...seeing a pattern here?

Yes - you're extremely paranoid and cynical about human potential.


If I was thawed, I would be interested in things like,

-Have they managed to mass-produce microelectronics on the 8nm scale yet?
-How far has stem-cell research come?
-Have I been cloned without my permission by Google?
-How much junkmail do I have?
-Is my car a "classic" yet, and can I cash in?
-Will I have to start my Blu-Ray collection all over again in, say, Green or Red-Ray?
-Are they still calling anything more than 640x480 "high def"?

And then I would probably go on a huge rant about how I hate the future despite all the wonderfulness that is sure to exist.

There would be an entire weird culture of us before-timers existing, messing with the present, and complaining about things. There would probably be singles bars that cater to the freshly-thawed, and all sorts of paradoxes like 25 year old great-great-grandfathers outliving their great-grandkids, only to live on to reproduce 2 or 3 more times.

I think it's one of those things that just wasn't meant to be - for all our sake, time doesn't seem to want to be messed with very much.
 
I can't really see the point. Unless you're dying from some, as of now, incurable disease and are still fairly young, you are only going to want to be frozen at the end of your life. When you awaken at some point in the future you'll still be an old, almost dead person with a knackered body and a mindset that's likely to be unopen to change. It wouldn't be a pleasant experience IMO.


My answer would be no, I don't want to wake up and find out that everyone on Earth is speaking Russian...

Learn to speak Russian then.

...or that the average IQ of man is lower than room temperature in Minnesota in the wintertime...

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. ;)
 
1) The whole idea is very material, egocentric, .... Western
Is life about this physical form?
Are you so important in life that we need to preserve you? (Thinking about the ecological footprint this would bring with it).

I can't really see the point. Unless you're dying from some, as of now, incurable disease and are still fairly young.

2) You would probably be sold for experiments at sometime (sorry recently saw one of the Alien films where they did this to grow the Alien in the defrosted bodies).

3) I do not like extreme temperatures, be it hot or cold.

So No.
 
If Futurama is anything to go being frozen and thawed in the future would be awesome. Sign me up.
 
I can't really see the point. Unless you're dying from some, as of now, incurable disease and are still fairly young, you are only going to want to be frozen at the end of your life. When you awaken at some point in the future you'll still be an old, almost dead person with a knackered body and a mindset that's likely to be unopen to change. It wouldn't be a pleasant experience IMO.

Ahh! But I’m sure you’ll still end up living long healthy life as an ‘almost dead’ person. Image how far medicine will advance in the next few hundred years.

If Futurama is anything to go being frozen and thawed in the future would be awesome. Sign me up.

I second that. 👍
 
1) The whole idea is very material, egocentric, .... Western
Is life about this physical form?
Are you so important in life that we need to preserve you? (Thinking about the ecological footprint this would bring with it).

Therefore?


And yes, I believe life is about this physical form, because I don't believe in an afterlife.
 
Well first off I would freeze myself when I am much older in age. Probably when I think I only have a few years left in me. At that point I'd be satisfied with my current life I assume. Seeing my family grow up etc.

As for unfreezing myself.... I would want to unfreeze myself once every 20-50 years to see how the world has progressed and re-freeze myself again. If I can only unfreeze myself once, either at the peak of human advancement or at the dawn of the apocalypse. At least then I will be the last of human existence.
 
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