Poll: If You Could Cryogenically Freeze Yourself, Would You?

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FPLOON

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Sadly, no... because I currently see it as temporary killing yourself (metaphorically) until X amount of time has passed...

Also, it's kinda reminding me of Lightning Returns, only without the people from my past still "alive" and shit...
 

LadyLightning

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Yes, definitely. Maybe I'd wake up in a time when people can finally accept that transgender people deserve to be ourselves, even if we were born with the wrong parts :x Preferably without forking over $30,000+ in medical bills that the majority of all human beings couldn't afford ever. I guess cancer patients are just lucky chemotherapy isn't considered a cosmetic hair removal treatment. ~_~

Maybe even a time when genetic restructuring is a thing, and I would actually be able to get the right chromosomes in the process.

Or perhaps I'd even wake up in the ~next~ civilization after this one ends, in a time of knights and castles and magic. :>


Of course, I could also wake up in Fallout 3, which would suck, but I'd consider it worth the risk.
 

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LadyLightning said:
Maybe even a time when genetic restructuring is a thing, and I would actually be able to get the right chromosomes in the process.
Simply changing sex will be the least of our issues. You could sleeve into an aquatic body, give yourself butterfly wings, or leap high into the air with digitigrade legs.

If you're interested in this, look up Eclipse Phase. It deals with post-singularity transhumanity in a really, really good way.
 

LadyLightning

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^_^ That sounds wonderful, but I don't want to be a Zora or a Thri-kreen. However, butterfly wings do sound absolutely adorable.
 

DirgeNovak

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No. Waking up in the far future would mean having to adapt to a society I might not understand, or dying alone in a wasteland after all life is extinct. I'll stay right here in the 21st century thank you.
 

Casual Shinji

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No.

What would be the point? It's not like it'll actually extend your life, you'll just be skipping time.

And I can't think of a worse fate than living in a world that is completely foreign to me. You put a person from the 50's in our time and they'll likely already go mad. And I'm already pretty unadept to the world I live in now. If I was frozen for 100 years or something, I'd most likely end up on the street begging for change. I couldn't hold down a job since I'd have no understanding of current technology or work ethics. I wouldn't be able to connect with people either... or well, less then I already can, since the mindset of that future age wouldn't correlate with mine at all.

So yeah, it sounds awesome to skip to the future, but I fear the reality of it would be crushing.
 

MeChaNiZ3D

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Yes, but only when I'm at the end of my natural life, and to be woken as soon as immortality is widespread. I don't care what the state of the world is at that point, I'd take my chances. My prediction is that at some point we will convert ourselves into a digital form and inhabit robot bodies when we need to interact with the world, but before that, medicine and robotics will become advanced enough to sustain a body well beyond our natural lifespan. I don't think I would if it had to be immediate, but I'd have to think more about why.
 

bartholen_v1legacy

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If I was broke, homeless, out of a job and all my friends and family were dead, then I'd probably do it. I've got too much unfinished stuff right now.
 

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Well, it worked out fine for Phillip J Fry.

I suppose I would if I was terminally ill in the hope that in the future that illness had been cured. Otherwise, no I don't think I would, I like living now and while it does bug me that I will never get to see what great things we will see in the about 10,000 years, I wouldn't artificially prolong my life to see it.
 

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thaluikhain said:
There's that XKCD cartoon and a sci-fi story by...(Sandy Mitchell? Barrington Bayley?) where everyone can go into suspension to see the future, but society can't progress cause everyone just wants to skip forward until someone else has done it.

Dayum...
I haven't read that XKCD strip before, but I remember writing a 90% similar story I wrote for school 10 years ago.
I think I'd make a 500 year jump, just to be on the safe side. Anything beyond that, and I'd probably wake up to some shitty future where the cockroaches have taken over the world and are battling a guerilla war against the mole people.
 

Thaluikhain

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NLS said:
I think I'd make a 500 year jump, just to be on the safe side. Anything beyond that, and I'd probably wake up to some shitty future where the cockroaches have taken over the world and are battling a guerilla war against the mole people.
Eh, what if most of the world was still run by humans, but the part you were in was run by mole people, and you aren't allowed in the human run parts because you'd be a lazy immigrant that steals jobs or whatever?

That'd really suck.
 

Sofus

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Regardless of wealth, you risk waking up poor due to inflation, theft or political changes. Not to mention that you would wake up without having any up to date knowledge. You might be able to adjust, but imagine for a moment that someone form the 18'th century woke up in the modern world.

Even if we ignore any potential language barriers, there would still be some major philosophical and cultural differences.
 

DragonLordSerge

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I chose yes >10000 cause i have a very curious personality and i would like to see the future what ever that maybe i would like to see how science and technology have advanced
 

Someone Depressing

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What if, like, one bunch of people killed everyone else on the planet and then they kill me because I'm not one of their people or whatever?

As good as the donuts are in the future, I'd rather not take my chances.
 

Auron225

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No, but it's tempting.

On the plus side, I'm going on an adventure no matter what happens. Everything will have changed even if I go for the lower 500 year option (or at least a hell of a lot will have changed in that case) so for better or worse, the world will at least become VERY interesting.

On the downside, I'd miss friends & family a lot and there is no possible way I could ever see them again (unless any of them also froze themselves for the same period of time).

The cons don't outweigh the pros in my mind.
 

duwenbasden

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answer := ~[doesItHurt]

(Does it hurt? If yes, then no.)

As a curious person of exploration, definitely, but only if the freeze doesn't sting.
 

FootloosePhoenix

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Yes, but only on if I could do it on under the condition of being very old and likely near death but still healthy enough to have some independence. I am very curious to see what human civilization could advance to. Just a glimpse is all I'd wish for, really, a day or week at most would suffice. And hey, maybe in 1,000-5,000 years we'd have some of our shit sorted out. Maybe.

Though I can't help but feel this would be a selfish decision on my part. Presumably some people who care about me would still be around, be that my spouse, children, sister or friends, and wouldn't want me to leave them. But on the other hand, again, I'd be very aged and at least being cryogenically frozen would give me a chance to say goodbye to them as opposed to a possibly spontaneous death where I would not have that option.
 

DugMachine

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I voted no. I already need my support system of family and friends, I could not expect to live in a world without them. And don't even get me started on the technological advances I would have to catch up on and maybe new languages/countries/society in general?

This is assuming the world doesn't get nuked to shit eventually.