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Southern Hemisphere's first cryogenically frozen client at rest in regional New South Wales facility (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In short: A cryonics company has frozen its first client in Australia in the hope of bringing him back to life in the future.

The client, a man in his 80s, died in Sydney before being frozen at minus 200 degrees Celsius at a Holbrook facility.

What's next? The cryonics facility is expecting higher demand as its membership base ages, although it's still unknown whether anyone preserved this way can ever be revived.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Imagine if a private foundation that was effectively an investment fund operated a facility that had been operating since the 1700s, keeping a handful of aristocrats and financiers in suspended animation, nominally at tremendous expense (hey, good alchemists and necromancers aren’t cheap). In reality, they cut a lot of corners and invested the change in building empires and buying yachts. Would anyone know or care? Would some millennial Hohenzollern or Rothschild really want to bring back their great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandpa back to show them the wonders of the modern world and ask them for their wisdom? And if it turned out that it wasn’t possible and the company said “please accept our deepest apologies, it looks like there was a failure of the undeath-support protocols some 130 years ago due to a human error. We’d fire the employee involved, but he’s long dead. Anyway, here’s $50,000 by way of apology”, that that wouldn’t settle it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Maybe it would, but it doesn't change anything. You asked why would they revive them, they would revive them to prove to potential customers that their service works and get more money. Yes they can just quit making more money like you described, but as I said, that seems like a stupid business decision.