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Re:At 31, I have just weeks to live. Here's what I want to p... by knorker on Monday September 07, 2020 @08:27AM (#24398951)
They should revive you because you paid for it.
Re:At 31, I have just weeks to live. Here's what I want to p... by edflsafoiewq on Monday September 07, 2020 @08:59AM (#24399123)
Ahh, the afterlife, now available by payment plan, and much easier than that Kingdom-of-God stuff....
Re:At 31, I have just weeks to live. Here's what I want to p... by knorker on Monday September 07, 2020 @10:02AM (#24399471)
Not afterlife. It's just another medical treatment. And not one that much different from the current system world wide. If you have money/power you get better access to healthcare.

Sure, basically-everywhere-but-the-US has socialized medicine, but still everywhere if Jeff Bezos got sick he could go "I'll buy this hospital end every doctor in it. Do your best to cure me".

Freezing isn't magic. Just think of it as a better CPR. You wouldn't say this woman got "afterlife", even though apparently her blood wasn't pumping for 40 minutes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_B%C3%A5genholm

Also this: https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/26/science/the-doctor-s-worl...

Re:At 31, I have just weeks to live. Here's what I want to p... by knorker on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @04:18AM (#24406297)
Not sure why I'm getting -3 for stating the obvious fact that one should get what one has paid for and has a contract for.
Re:At 31, I have just weeks to live. Here's what I want to p... by b34r on Monday September 07, 2020 @08:35AM (#24398992)
Finding some 50-300 years in the future that cares might be a problem.
Re:At 31, I have just weeks to live. Here's what I want to p... by overcast on Monday September 07, 2020 @10:31AM (#24399652)
We're constantly digging up old and dead things because we care.
Re:At 31, I have just weeks to live. Here's what I want to p... by triceratops on Monday September 07, 2020 @12:44PM (#24400640)
But they stay dead and we can study them at our leisure. If it was people who started walking around again doing stuff, we'd have a different opinion.
Re:At 31, I have just weeks to live. Here's what I want to p... by overcast on Monday September 07, 2020 @07:32PM (#24403809)
You really think if we could reanimate some ancient person, we wouldn't? Imagine what we could learn from important people in those times.
Re:At 31, I have just weeks to live. Here's what I want to p... by triceratops on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @03:34AM (#24406045)
It depends. If cryonics becomes widespread, "ancient people" in suspended animation would be pretty common. There wouldn't be that much to learn from reviving all of them.
Re:At 31, I have just weeks to live. Here's what I want to p... by knorker on Monday September 07, 2020 @09:56AM (#24399441)
One would hope that the rule of law and private contracts still exists in 50-300 years.
Re:At 31, I have just weeks to live. Here's what I want to p... by staticman2 on Monday September 07, 2020 @10:48AM (#24399763)
There's an expression called ruling from the grave to reflect the difficulty of enforcing a contract after you are dead. The same principle applies as those frozen people are dead in every legal sense and practical sense and likely any biological sense.
Re:At 31, I have just weeks to live. Here's what I want to p... by komali2 on Monday September 07, 2020 @11:55AM (#24400245)
I would be extremely motivated to revive them and promote reviving them because I would also want to be frozen and revived. I assume this would be even moreso the case if society develops reviving technology, and therefore knows it actually works.
Re:At 31, I have just weeks to live. Here's what I want to p... by knorker on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @04:23AM (#24406321)
Yet people, doctors and civilians, try to save people who are legally dead every day…