whole body frozen or just your head!
Which would you choose? Your whole body or just a Head Job??
2007-10-19 01:07:52 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Head Job? Get it?
Oh never mind!!!
2007-10-19 01:15:37 · update #1
I can't stand the cold. The thought of being frozen gives me a chill. I'd much rather be cremated and not worry about some future pipe dream.
2007-10-19 01:20:53 · answer #1 · answered by Murazor 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Whole Body. For the record, this is not a hypothetical question. I am a funded Option 2 member of the Cryonics Institute, http://www.cryonics.org.
Three more things.
1. Yes, we can freeze ("Vitrify") and thaw whole organs viably with modern cryonics. So far it has been done for (animal) kidneys and (human) ovaries. 21st Century Medicine is the company actively researching the field.
2. Brain activity stops when people drown in cold water or suffer sever hypothermia. They are "dead". The current record is for a man that was trapped in a snowdrift and was "dead" for 24 hours. His core temperature was below 50 degrees and he was successfully revived.
3. Given a chance, I don't know a single anthropologist that wouldn't jump at the chance to "thaw" a person from 100 years ago. The historical perspective they can provide would be invaluable to future society. Even if that reason is discounted, medicine will still want to revive people when the technology is possible for the same reasons that we fight to save the terminally ill. It is a life and saving life is a calling.
-ellie
2007-10-19 15:18:02 · answer #2 · answered by Ellie ! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not yet it isn't. Heroic though these efforts may be, they're a long way from freezing an organ as big and complex as a brain in a manner that will allow it to be reconstituted.
We can't even do it to livers and kidneys yet. In a brain, every cell counts, and ANY tissue damage would wreck the mind of the freezee.
We'll get there eventually, perhaps, but right now it's a dream.
CD
2007-10-19 08:14:08 · answer #3 · answered by Super Atheist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I get it. ; )
I'd choose the whole body. I don't think I'd want my head attached to another body sometime in the future. But then, if I died at an old age, maybe I would rather have a younger body when I returned.
2007-10-19 13:50:40 · answer #4 · answered by Michael B - Prop. 8 Repealed! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither. If I can't get a nice new body, one that hasn't been trashed by my own and my parents' poor choices when I was younger, then let me just go ahead into the darkness.
2007-10-19 08:12:54 · answer #5 · answered by auntb93 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Neither.
I suffer from this awful curse called rationality and I know that the people in the future will have better things to do than unfreeze some corpses.
2007-10-19 08:11:12 · answer #6 · answered by Leviathan 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Futurama wouldn't have been nearly so funny if Fry just had his head frozen.
I mean, how many times could they use the "Fry has an amusing new body" gag?
2007-10-19 08:13:31 · answer #7 · answered by hatbang57 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would want my whole body preserved
and just waking up in the futrue is not the afterlife;the afterlife will be spiritual in nature not physical.
2007-10-19 08:13:58 · answer #8 · answered by Maurice H 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Neither. No point in paying a lot of money for keeping my body rotting. It won't do any good.
2007-10-19 08:12:07 · answer #9 · answered by Matt 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
When brain functions cease, life ends. There can be no returning to life after that.
2007-10-19 08:13:46 · answer #10 · answered by Lionheart ® 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋