248 Legally Deceased "Patients" are In These Dewars Awaiting Future Revival

Cryogenically frozen forever*

*Until the funds dry up

From time to time they have to open these things and basically find melted human jelly where a body was once placed.

CERN needs to be stoped
Oh god the smell
- I've never had the misfortune of dealing with it IRL myself, but the stories from cops who've had to retrieve bloated 'floaters' from shorelines or bodies of water are pretty daunting - describing 'the deceased' as sometimes coming apart in their hands like an overcooked pot roast ("fall off the bone ribs, $9.99 this Thursday at Al's Cookhouse!").

Pyramid schemes are always great until they collapse.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4074928/ - I really liked this movie about it. Without spoilers, the idea basically is that to keep getting funding the company has to prove that the technology works. They have to start waking people up and someone has to be first. Decades after you've been frozen all your family is long dead so you're basically company's property, they can do whatever they want...

Seems like a low rated movie. Yet I'm still interested
Edit: I just saw the movie and it's great. It has the vibe of a Black Mirror story that gotten lengthened to a movie.
- Glad you liked it. I think the low rating is because the movie is simply too smart for a lot of people. Like it's actually smart Sci-Fi, not just pretending to be smart like Interstellar.
  The same guy also did Open Your Eyes (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0125659/) which was remade in US as Vanilla Sky. If you haven't seen it check out the Spanish original.

Are there any even half plausible ways cryogenics might work with the technology we have? I mean, if they're frozen their cells are ruptured.

Yeah - its all bullshit. Just a pie in the sky thing to sell to people with lots of money. Reminds me of the Pharaohs being buried with all their shit as if they would live again and still have all their stuff
I mean, if they're frozen their cells are ruptured. Not strictly true, biologists freeze cells all the time.
- But whole humans are too big to quickfreeze. The cold just doesn't travel fast enough through the torso and brain to not cause damage.
  Ok, there's maybe a workaround. There was some news years ago, about someone that replaced a pigs blood with cold saltwater + glucose to keep them in a stasis and then just pumped the blood back to revive them. That aparently worked up to a few weeks but if you find a chemical that keeps liquid at -100°C or less (and isn't poisonous)...

And they'll have to fight it out to be the one consciousness getting shoved into a probe and sent into space after they're revived by a theocratic fascist state in 500 years

Thought this was going to be about scotch.

And Walt Disney's head.

Which one is Austin Powers?

Oh I could do the funniest thing.

power outages at these facilities already happened, but it's a smaller problem in grand scheme of things. facility of this type promises to keep human meatsicle at 77K effectively forever (because magic tech to revive dead is not coming), for a single payment. this means they'll simply run out of power/liquid nitrogen money at some point and will have to shut down, and allow everything to thaw
- At the very least the customers won't notice. 😅
- So the gamble is that tech is invented before money runs out?
  But also didn’t one routine inspection discover liquefied human remains?
- I would imagine they use the same financial methods as funeral homes taking payment decades before you die.
  Money goes into an investment fund that keeps growing.
- But the point is that people will continue to die and believe in that kind of thing. A bit like religion...
  Obviously space could become an issue especially if some kind of revival never happens... But at the price they set I think it's prohibitive enough.
  There will never be a shortage of fools for this kind of services.
- Compound interest.