A man who ran out of air at the bottom of the ocean

Re:A man who ran out of air at the bottom of the ocean by TeMPOraL on Monday June 03, 2019 @05:13AM (#20081539)

You don't. You can only hope that a) future people won't revive you unless they're somewhat confident it'll leave you better off than you were when frozen, and b) worst comes to worst, they can still euthanize you.

Cryonics is ultimately a bet on future technology and future humanity.

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Re:A man who ran out of air at the bottom of the ocean by nwatson on Monday June 03, 2019 @10:40AM (#20083552)

Future people will use the frozen as a resource. I would buy a 2139-October call option on 100-frozen-hopefuls ... that's when I estimate techniques for revival will be viable and when legal hurdles to mass exploitation will be overcome. In 120 years nobody will care about your intentions in being frozen.

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Re:A man who ran out of air at the bottom of the ocean by garmaine on Monday June 03, 2019 @12:15PM (#20084841)

...why? How could there possibly be utility in a corpsicle when you could much more easily achieve the same thing with AI?

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Re:A man who ran out of air at the bottom of the ocean by dragonwriter on Monday June 03, 2019 @12:20PM (#20084906)

> I would buy a 2139-October call option on 100-frozen-hopefuls.

Unless you live inordinately long, you'll only be in a position to benefit from that if you are wrong about it being a worthwhile investment. (But right about the technological enablers—just wrong on the socio/legal issues.)

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