Is it possible to cryogenically freeze a person for 1000 years like Fry in Futurama?

Question

If it is possible, it will be a de-facto time travel to the future.Tell me what you think.

Answer 1

Of course you can freeze them, the problem is thawing them back out again... When water freezes it forms ice crystals, when this happens it destroys human tissue.

There is nonetheless reason to be optimistic that someday it will be possible. There are certain species of tree frogs which get frozen solid during the winter - all metabolism stops - they are for all intent dead. Then someone when they thaw out they come back to life. Speculation is that these small animals produce an enzyme which inhibits the formation of the tissue destroying ice crystals.

Another study which I recall I believe has to do with freezing food so that when it thaws it is identical to before frozen - Here they use a magnetic field during the freezing process and this keeps the ice crystal size very small.

Baring these technical challenges, you best make sure you trust whoever freezes you, to keep you good and solid for 1000 years! I seem to recall Walt Disney's cryogenically frozen head being accidentally thawed out (Opps!).

Answer 2

The answer is "maybe ! - but currently only if you're medically dead"

At present there are significant problems with the freezing process (for example, ice crystals forming in the brain) which they havent worked out how to solve.

There are several companies that will freeze your body (or just your head) after your death in the expectation that sometime in the future the technology will exist to bring you back.

Opinion: Yes, it may become possible to cryogenically freeze someone, but IMO its not likely that anyone will survive to be thawed until they sort out several major issues they currently have with the freezing process...and there will be risks like the freezer breaking down as it did in one case in France...(see sources)

Answer 3

One of the main problems cryogenics has so far been unable to circumvent is the fact that water expands when frozen, which means that the water contained within the cell membranes of the vast majority of cells in your body expands and bursts these cells.

An organism with trillions of ruptured cells does not seem a likely candidate for reanimation.

Answer 4

It is already done, the only problem left is that cells especially in the brain are damaged by ice crystiles. That is why we cannot be brought back to life yet. We need some why to freeze the brain that does not cause crysticalization, as far as I understand it.

Answer 5

Of course it isn't possible, and probably will never be. These people that cryogenically freeze their body are hoping that in the future we will be able to artificially maintain life, and by doing so be able to artificially revive their dead body.

If this becomes possible, then everyone will live forever. And if everyone lives forever, not only do we have to see Dick Clark every New Years until the earth explodes, but we would have a SERIOUS population crisis on our hands!!

Once you die, you are dead....get over it!!

Answer 6

It's not possible yet. Humans haven't found the proper way to keep something alive like that.

Answer 7

Yes it's possible. People are already doing it. But will they be revived when they find the "cure"? Nope.

Answer 8

i don't believe the possibility exists.......even if we are able to reanimate tissue(some success already with that), we are much more than just animated tissue.....any mortician could tell you that.....some parts of us are still alive even after we as a whole are considered....'dead'

Answer 9

No, people can die from being too cold. No one can survive that.

Answer 10

god can do that