h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Seems to me that this might be a way for unethical medical personnel to make huge sums of money from the deeply misguided super-rich. If anyone out there is actually contemplating using this service, I'd like to know:

1) What guarantees are you given when you hand over your money that future generations will even attempt to revive you?

2) What do you think your 21st Century corpse has to offer the 23rd, 24th, or 25th Centuries to make it worth their while reviving you?

3) What kind of burial/rememberence service will your family be offered when you go into deep freeze?

4) Why are you so selfish? When you die, organs in your body could be used to save the lives of several other people, who, unlike you, still have a right to life.

5) Think of what you might wake up to, in the highly unlikely event that you could be revived. Bits of you might not defrost quite as well as others. You could wake up paralysed, or worse. Those who revive you might have as little concern for you as a six-form biology student defrosting a rat for dissection.

You are assuming that this decision is made logically. In my opinion, the majority of cryogenics users are responding to a blind fear of being dead. To them, no cost is too high. No chance of happy recovery is too small. Getting frozen is a must because otherwise they are paralyzed by an irrational fear of death. It's really hard to argue with people like that.

But they are, in any case, dead. Dead and buried or dead and frozen. What's the difference? As you freely mention logic, I assume you are not a participant in this particular experiment? Hoping for revival is like applying Factor 30 and expecting to survive in the epicentre of a nuclear explosion. I do, of course, accept your point about the impossibility of argument against such a course of action. It doesn't stop me getting cross about its stupidity, though.

No, I have no interest in being frozen after I'm dead. And of course, your points are well made.

Well, either you´re dead for sure or you got a one in a million shot of surviving. The latter is the best alternative isn´t it?

And besides, the cryogenics company doesn´t really try to hide from people how unlikely they are to be restored. Their clients are just desperate.

About as likely as you are to be restored after cremation, for example? Yup, that's pretty desperate.

i'm not even going to attempt getting frozen! i don't want to wake up after i've died!and if i've died from old age then i'll still be old! sounds deppressing to me!