14 year old girl wins right to have body frozen

[COYBL25]

I'm not dead yet lol

" potentially reanimated "

Think of Rimmer World in Red Dwarf as an example of what would happen

 

[Gladystweet]

Only way to take advantage of it is to be young when you do have it done, on the basis that it works.

If you are 40 odd you are far too old to make the most of a second chance in the future.

40 odd? Jeez lad.

 

[LinekersLegs]

Given how unlikely it is that her body will be in good enough condition to revive by the time they find a cure for her cancer in practical terms it is just a very expensive funeral.

However if it gave her some hope and peace at the end I can understand why her mother supported it.

My grandma has told the family that she wants to donate her body to science. The family ain't happy. What can you do?

For me, this is a far more effective way of "living past death" - give your organs to help someone who needs them or if a bit too old the rest of the body to science so trainee doctors can perfect their techniques before they are let loose on living patients.

 

[Ashtonian]

40 odd? Jeez lad.

Well a new world so to speak is more inclined to the younger mind to really take advantage of. 40 + and you are already middle aged.

theoretically speaking, a 21 year old would be better placed than a 51 year old.

 

[Bungle]

Given how unlikely it is that her body will be in good enough condition to revive by the time they find a cure for her cancer in practical terms it is just a very expensive funeral.

However if it gave her some hope and peace at the end I can understand why her mother supported it.


For me, this is a far more effective way of "living past death" - give your organs to help someone who needs them or if a bit too old the rest of the body to science so trainee doctors can perfect their techniques before they are let loose on living patients.

Hi LL, I was just thinking, and hear me out here, If I arranged for a taxidermist to work on me after I'm gone and deliver me to the US, could I stay at yours? Just put me in a corner or something and hang coats on me.

 

[LinekersLegs]

Hi LL, I was just thinking, and hear me out here, If I arranged for a taxidermist to work on me after I'm gone and deliver me to the US, could I stay at yours? Just put me in a corner or something and hang coats on me.

Which bits would we be hanging coats on Bungle, is this a humble brag?

 

[peteblue]

She was only 14, doing this probably allowed her to die more peacefully. Her mother also probably feels as though she hasn't really lost her daughter but that she is just waiting to be woken up. It's not for me, but we all take comfort from different things.....

 

[The Cowboy]

Best solution would've been for the daft mum to say 'yes dear, cryogenically frozen dear, not a problem dear', and then just forget about it.

 

[Bungle]

Which bits would we be hanging coats on Bungle, is this a humble brag?

Hahaha Now you mention it, you could mount me to the wall and use it as a clothes rail.

 

[Toffeelover]

There is no evidence as yet that defrosting your body will return it to the state it was in before being frozen, will one's brain still be okay. Mind I sympathise with the girl give it a go what has she to lose.

 

[Ernie]

Maybe see just needed something to cling onto, something to numb the overwhelming fear that she would die and her life would be over

If it gave her one shred of hope it was worth it

Also, [Poor language removed] cancer

 

[SpongeBob brown shoes]

Plus what id the company goes under? what happens then?

They'd go into liquidation


One of the first cryogenic companies did go bust so they just had to bury the bodies, really cant see any of these companies lasting hundreds of years for a cure, its just another market to extract money from vunrable people who are scared of death, like religion and psychics

 

[USABlue]

Maybe see just needed something to cling onto, something to numb the overwhelming fear that she would die and her life would be over

If it gave her one shred of hope it was worth it

Also, [Poor language removed] cancer

this

 

[Seathestars]

Only way to take advantage of it is to be young when you do have it done, on the basis that it works.

If you are 40 odd you are far too old to make the most of a second chance in the future.

I'm not so sure, by the time they warm her up, lets say in a 100 years for instance, they may well have invented a 'live forever pill'

 

[Gladystweet]

Well a new world so to speak is more inclined to the younger mind to really take advantage of. 40 + and you are already middle aged.

theoretically speaking, a 21 year old would be better placed than a 51 year old.