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Doctors' estimates of the feasibility of preserving the dying for future revival

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55 points arielzj | 5 comments | 08 Dec 25 22:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.023s | source
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michaelt ◴[08 Dec 25 22:48 UTC] No.46198721[source]▶
When it comes to cryopreservation the thing I find infeasible is the idea a provider would bother with the preservation, under the incentives of capitalism.

If someone pays millions of dollars to a company that promises to freeze their corpse for 200 years, the company can simply freeze the corpse for a decade or two, take the millions of dollars as dividends and executive bonuses, then declare bankruptcy. The dead can't sue.

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1. netsharc ◴[08 Dec 25 23:05 UTC] No.46198909[source]▶
There's a news story about such a company where they basically throw the bodies in a chest freezer, or stuffed many of them together in one unit, etc. Nightmare fuel...

I have doubts that such a company could keep the power on for the next 200 years, with an increasingly unstable planet (climatically and politically).

Maybe sending your body in a lead coffin into the coldness of space is a better preservation method, maybe that's why the loser billionaires are so interested in going to space..

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2. FridayoLeary ◴[08 Dec 25 23:07 UTC] No.46198936[source]▶
If that's the case why aren't we doing more to encourage them?
3. pndy ◴[09 Dec 25 00:29 UTC] No.46199753[source]▶
Some 20 years ago French Planete documentary channel (back then that channel had some good stuff - often shocking, unlike Discovery that slowly marched towards flashy popsci, aliens and WW2) was showing this piece about cryonics, and there was a segment about company that did indeed went bankrupt. Bodies of their clients due to unpaid bills de-thawed and started decomposing. And since that happen there was nothing else that families could do but just bury their beloved ones.

Some of the experts speaking argued that it's impossible to preserve and then revive human bodies with available technology because ice crystals do irreversible damage to body tissues.

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4. IAmBroom ◴[09 Dec 25 14:33 UTC] No.46205301[source]▶
Yes, the ice crystals destroying the integrity of a large portion of the cells throughout the body remains a tiny chink in the whole plan.

Fortunately, "future technology" handwaves all problems away.

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5. hollerith ◴[09 Dec 25 14:34 UTC] No.46205313{3}[source]▶
The ice crystal problem got solved decades ago.