Sydney man becomes cryonics facility's first client, with hopes he will eventually be brought back to life
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An unexpected dying request has resulted in a Sydney man being cryogenically frozen in a groundbreaking Australian move.
  • 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.
  • No1@aussie.zone
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    5 months ago

    I remember reading a while ago that with medical and technical advances over the next 50 years, they reckoned that some people born now will be able to effectively live forever, eg replacing or regenerating body parts, cure cancer etc etc

    I’d need to think for a while about if you could, would you want to live forever? I vaguely remember a sci fi short story that had this question as part one of it’s themes.

    • Ilandar@aussie.zone
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      5 months ago

      I’d like to live an extended life (age slower), though that would also be dependent on how many of my friends and family could live alongside me. I don’t know about forever, that’s a pretty difficult concept for me to grasp. I am scared of death but that’s more a fear of ceasing to exist before I’m ready, more than ceasing to exist at all. Regardless, humanity will face so many challenges within this century that there’s a possibility none of this matters anyway. We could all be wiped out, or the world could be so different (in a dangerous or just alienating way) that I might just be ready to go earlier than I can imagine at this stage of my life.