Will Cryogenically Frozen People Ever Be Revived?
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Corpse-freezing hasn’t exactly gone mainstream, but most people are now familiar with the concept: you lay out a ton of cash, sign some papers, and spend a couple post-death decades in a cutting-edge meat locker, calmly awaiting the conditions for your eventual revival. Hundreds of cold, dead Americans, or dead, cold American brains, depending on which procedure they opted for (whole-body vs. brain-only), can currently be found in storage facilities across the U.S. All of them took a gamble – one that was pretty cheap, metaphysically speaking: the worse case scenario here is just continued death.