I wonder when is the right time to do it? Probably in your early 20s. I expect if any of them are revived they will be the decrepit state they were in before, though almost certainly worse.
Then they find out their 40 descendants don't want to give back any money and are forced to work 900yrs cleaning toilets to pay off that reverse aging, only to end up dying of cancer, because they aren't immortal.
You might enjoy reading Transmetropolitan - it's a comic where one of the aspects of the future it is set in is that people who are revived are pretty much unwanted nuisances that usually end up with severe mental problems. They do get nice new bodies, though.
Ah yes many such cases from history of human race, when monarch want to govern, but impatient son is willing to coup whole establishment, just to govern himself. In best case, parent will just get blinded Byzantian style.
These would make cool museum pieces a few centuries later. "Back on Earth, ancient peoples determined status based on how big their number was in a spreadsheet. Some big number people thought they could achieve immortality through refrigeration, like mummies skiing into the afterlife. Historians believe this was likely a religious adaptation caused by widespread climate changes of the era."
Until it's proven that one of those people can be relived (proof by doing it), I stand by the opinion that such ventures are nothing but a very expensive grift
I agree with you, but hey, money is useless to you after you die, so if you’re super wealthy why not spend 0.001% of your wealth on something with a very small but non-zero chance of working
What if there’s a chance that you are supposed to die as a part of a larger meaning or purpose, but you screw it up? Or you get mind uploaded to some dystopian video game. It could cut both ways.
I'd be impressed if they could even revive a mouse.
I can imagine rich people living past 100, maybe even 130, but you have to be pretty narcissistic to think you'll be able to cryogenically freeze yourself and be revived 500 years later.
The alternative is dying a natural death of old age. This is apart of the human experience.
Getting frozen and brought back in the distant future, even if we assume you'll be in great health, means all your friends and family are gone. Maybe you'll wake up in a distopian nightmare?
> The alternative is dying a natural death of old age. This is apart of the human experience.
This seems almost comically lemming-like. Fear of missing out . . . on dying?
> Getting frozen and brought back in the distant future, even if we assume you'll be in great health, means all your friends and family are gone.
(Assuming none of your friends and family were also frozen.) But more importantly, I wouldn't suggest that people should aspire to death because of losing all their friends and family. If starting over (in what's likely an unfamiliar society and culture) is all one's got, that's still something.
Mainly I find it grotesque that it might be a way to slip past death, but only for rich people. But I can't bring myself to suggest that it would necessarily be a better universe if they took the normal death route instead.
You’re revived in the year 2190 by a totalitarian state who wants to use you to fly a space mission that no sane person would volunteer for. (That’s the plot of Niven’s “A World Out of Time”.)
that physical/mental pain in the process (much like more severe surgeries) is a thing - especially if it's something you retain any amount of consciousness with.
there's also the elephant in the room of coming back as a vegetable. whether due to biological damage or the brain simply not being able to recalibrate.
There was a really horrible and thought provoking movie on this on netflix, I wish I could remember the name. Basically a guy is revived but they're still experimenting with the unrefined process so he lives as an experiment trapped in a hospital.
