just to outline this fictitious would you rather, you rich enough to retire cryogenic preservation is perfect. you could live out the rest of your life in retirement and see the world evolve “like god intended”, or you can adopt cryogenic lifestyle where you freeze yourself for however long you want and stay thawed for however long you want but your still a human with natural human lifespan so you will eventually die.

of course contingencies are allowed if you think something cataclysmic will happened you can be dethawed abruptly and considering future medicines to extend your lifespan is allowed

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 hour ago

    I have always felt a little out of synch like I was born too early. Not sure I need longer than a regular lifespan, but might consider pausing. The problem is that I have friends, kids, brothers and sisters, don’t think it would be pleasant to wake up with all of them dead or old. So probably not.

  • heyWhatsay@slrpnk.netEnglish
    2·
    13 hours ago

    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.

  • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    13 hours ago

    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.

    • Cattail@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      4 hours ago

      lol its basically futurama from fry’s perspective or where fry, bender, and the professor make a time machine that only goes foward

  • reksas@sopuli.xyz
    7·
    1 day ago

    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.

    • pdxfed@lemmy.world
      8·
      2 days ago

      The global seed vault in Norway is north of the arctic circle as a way of offering preservation insurance and predictable, controlled, frozen temps for food sources and biodiversity. It’s constructed deep underground in permafrost.

      I was reading a book about refrigeration’s impact on the food supply last year and at the end the author decided to visit. The day of her visit it was closed due to emergency at the main gate; meltwater was flooding the entryway. Meltwater North of the arctic circle.

      I think it’s much more likely you awake when the power goes out because MicrosoftAlphafacebookXDisneyP&G needed more power for a new data center and you couldn’t afford a politician to keep your town’s power.

      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 day ago

        If the power goes out, you don’t wake back up. This ain’t fallout 4. If the power goes out, you’re a corpse. We don’t have a way to thaw human sized creatures that doesn’t involve ice crystals rupturing cell walls, and organs. The only creatures that seem to be able to do it, either live at the poles in water, or are tiny. Even then, most of them aren’t mammals.

    • Cattail@lemmy.worldOP
      51·
      2 days ago

      yeah i was thinking about that. like would you wake up in a dictatorship or a time with way more problems than now

  • MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca
    71·
    1 day ago

    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!

    • insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      3·
      20 hours ago

      Neither, I want to have my brain scan put into a robot and live forever

      I will never be convinced that isn’t a copy. Grod-dang emdot-tu drives don’t have thoughts, Michael!

      Now getting a brain case to be put into other bodies? Sure. Though I would immediately be unrecognizable as a human, not because I’d become some cyberbrute but because I’d be something more like Wall-E(/an ROV) or at times some monolith in a forest tied into the Myconet.

      Maybe humanoid arms, maybe eyes that aren’t cameras, but other than that I’m not sure. Maybe living gel (that assists with homeostasis, bioreaction) though that wouldn’t be obviously human either. It might be the most obvious just when I’m doing some hobby-esque things, or making a mistake and immediately being aware of it.

  • Mac@mander.xyzEnglish
    8·
    1 day ago

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

    • Cattail@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      1 day ago

      ironically i thought that inspired this would you rather was making IP for Disney and having Disney cryogenically freeze you just to thaw you out to prove your alive so keep the copywrite out of public domain. of course disney would pay for your stasis

  • Mothra@mander.xyz
    3·
    1 day ago

    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.

  • fullsquare@awful.systems
    61·
    1 day ago

    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

  • VivianRixia@piefed.socialEnglish
    12·
    2 days ago

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

  • stoy@lemmy.zip
    2·
    1 day ago

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