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I wish I had the confidence in mankind's future to consider cryogenic freezing...

When I unfreeze myself, will the 93 cents in my bank account accrue interest and give me over 1 billion dollars?

Please give me the dignity of death.
I will not be a slave for an ultrawealthy megacorporation.

When I thought the world had a future, I would have opted for cryogenics.

But I am 100% that we are on our way to the big reset button.

Not necessarily extinction, per se. But a societal bottleneck where a man-made catastrophe throws the survivors back technologically and we have to start the climb all over.

Getting past that point to the realm of actually achieving the technology necessary to unfreeze me seems unlikely. So cryogenics is just death with a preserved corpse.

I'll take death. The sooner the better, lately.

Even if I wanted to be frozen, there is no point. One would have no guarantees that you wouldn't just be thawed and disposed later so the company can sell more stasis slots. Or if they decide to even try to keep their word, they could maintain your stasis so badly that you would die from that or maybe thaw partially occasionally or something. Unless you are billionaire and could afford somekind of insurance that makes sure nothing happens to you, there would be absolutely nothing protecting you.

And even if everything went according to plan, society could collapse in such way maintaining the stasis could become impossible due to lack of resources.

Ask me this a couple months ago and I'd have opted for freezing me, no question. But I lost my person, and I've realized it's not that I was afraid to die or that I wanted life to go on forever. I wanted the life I had to go on forever. That's gone now. I'll opt for the end date on the tin.

Unfreeze me for a week each year. I get to spend a day catching up on what's happened, mourning the dead, and then a few days exploring what's new, and then a day planning next year's excursions.

Neither, I want to have my brain scan put into a robot and live forever. Or exchange body parts for robot replacements till I'm a robot ship of Theseus.

If you can beat 'em, join 'em!

If I could flip a switch and just stop my life like turning off a tv I'd do it immediately. Extending it?! Sheesh

none of that shit works and won't work for a good minute, cryonics is rapture for nerds that take scifi way too seriously

what we already know tho is that because there's one payment to store meat popsicle effectively forever and this shit is ran by true believer techbros, it tends to run out of money pretty regularly. that means they run out of liquid nitrogen and meat popsicles thaw, and this already happened more than once

being rich is not the solution to rising ocean waters, fascist dictatorships and weapons stockpiling.

stop idolizing billionaires. they're garbage human beings.

Only if I can sync up my cryo pod with my wife. I'd have to have someone to share the future with

Retire, i don't think I could stand living in the future. I'd definitely love reading a summary of what's coming up next just before I die though.

I think I'd go the Bobiverse route so I both get to die and be a self-replicating spaceship.

Most days, I wish for another asteroid.

Humans have plagued this planet too long.

wasnt that futurama. technically its biologically not possible to do it, because freezing would form ice crystals and damage your cells. maybe for organisms that withstand freezing like this.

If I were to get frozen, it would be on a ship making it's slow trip to another planet. Thaw me when the next planet is habitable, so I can see something new.

Oh, and by then I could probably get my consciousness put into some human/cyborg/animal hybrid, so that would be a new experience too. Yeah, otherwise I'm fine with a boring retirement.

Let's see if I understood correctly your question.

Get frozen, yes or no?

Uh, retire. I bet it's awful to be transported to the future, where no one knows you personally, and you don't even know anything in the future.

it's only going to get worse from here. in another millennium all this will be under water.

I'd rather retire and die in piece than wake up to an unfamiliar world.

Jane, get me off this crazy thing!

Can we freeze someone else? I think we could fix things tbh.

I don't believe we have the tech yet, so I'm not gonna trust any such thing, its probabky snake oil.

But assuming that regulatory bodies around the world has already certified and approved it (meaning the ~~"dethaw"~~ "unfreezing" part has already been solved and is working), I would probably skip like 5 years at a time, watch all the TV shows and movies, then skip 5 years, repeat...

Otherwise, I wouldn't touch that thing with a meter stick. Snake oil.

This is a great listen if you want to know about what’s going on with cryogenics https://www.thisamericanlife.org/354/mistakes-were-made/act-one-8