14 year old girl wins right to have body frozen

[Bungle]

anyone going to donate their body to science when they go?

I've already informed my family that they are to strap my corpse into the passenger seat and take me for a drive round a safari park, when we get into the Lion enclosure they are to push me out and record the Lions going to town on me and stick it up on youtube and watch the views and likes roll in. Told them to disable the comments section though cos I don't want people saying nasty thing and upsetting the family.

 

[BlueLlama]

I'm leading a campaign to have Niasse frozen until they find a cure for being turd.

 

[The Cowboy]

When she was studying medicine my ex put herself up for science purposes. That was until she witnessed her first post mortem, she swiftly took herself off after that.

I put myself up yer ma for science purposes.

 

[Boss_Blue]

I put myself up yer ma for science purposes.

Is that why she had the microscope then?

 

[larrygobfiend]

I'm thinking logically mate. It isn't a case of a switch and a bolt of lightning ala frankenstein to reanimate a body. We might not be able to comprehend it now fine, but it would be a massively complex process.

And that isn't even factoring in the point that the tech may never exist legally considering why would anyone fund a technology when the issue 50 years from now will be the world's population?

Mate they've already got the technology - The Russians have been reanimating frozen squirrels for decades.

 

[Gladystweet]

Being from an Irish Catholic family and educated by nuns has left its mark. I still believe but don't practice. I've wondered about the spirituality of of bringing the dead back to life. If you believe in an after life and that you have a soul (and it isn't just the Catholics who do that) then what happens if a person is brought back? And even if you don't believe in that, what essentially makes you who you are is not the body but the soul (I can't think of a better word - that unique thing that is you and not governed by the arrangement of your DNA) Does that inner soul/spirituality/personality/emotions come back too.

Good question. I don't think it's a particularly religious thing to wonder what it is that makes us...us.
Another thing to consider, what will the world be like if it was possible to bring you back to life? Would you even be accepted?

 

[MikeH72]

Sorry just came across this advert on the site and it made me laugh

 

[The Cowboy]

I'm thinking logically mate. It isn't a case of a switch and a bolt of lightning ala frankenstein to reanimate a body. We might not be able to comprehend it now fine, but it would be a massively complex process.

And that isn't even factoring in the point that the tech may never exist legally considering why would anyone fund a technology when the issue 50 years from now will be the world's population?

Once again, you're thinking within the limitations of what technology is capable of right now. Much of what is available now was beyond most people's wildest dreams in 1980, so we simply do not know what will be possible in 100+ years.

 

[The Cowboy]

Is that why she had the microscope then?

Destroyed. Thanks for ruining my Friday.

 

[TrixyStevens]

This sounds very harsh but you don't mess with the natural cycle of things. This is such an innocent concept that I doubt she survived anyway. I feel for the child, 14 is no age to be dealt such a blow.
If (and it's a big if) she can be woken from her frozen state and she is cured it will be fantastic for a while, but the world will be a very different place from the one she left behind. Desperation makes us do crazy things.

 

[Boss_Blue]

Destroyed. Thanks for ruining my Friday.

 

[Boss_Blue]

This is such an innocent concept that I doubt she survived anyway.

SHE WAS ALREADY DEAD FFS

 

[The Cowboy]

This sounds very harsh but you don't mess with the natural cycle of things. This is an innocent concept that I doubt she survived anyway. I feel for the child, 14 is no age to be dealt such a blow.
If (and it's a big if) she can be woken from her frozen state and she is cured it will be fantastic for a while, but the world will be a very different place from the one she left behind. Desperation makes us do crazy things.

14 year old is reanimated in 2116, first thought 'omg this is bare crazy, gotta snapchat this lol', then she finds out all communication is via brainwave transmission and her brain was made obsolete 80 years ago.

 

[Bungle]

If she does meet any remaining relatives when she's reanimated I'd imagine she'd get a frosty reception

 

[Donald Twain]

If she does meet any remaining relatives when she's reanimated I'd imagine she'd get a frosty reception

Jesus Christ!