Opinion Alcor Life Extension Foundation - who is ready to get frozen?

[Grassshoppa]

Found this while reading about Bitcoin. Who's ready to be frozen and brought back to life in the future?

Another candidate is Hal Finney. Finney was a well-known cypherpunk and cryptographer who created the first iteration of a reusable proof-of-work system. Finney was the first person to download the Bitcoin client and the first person to receive bitcoin sent by Nakamoto in 2009. Finney refuted the claims that he was Nakamoto before his death in 2014. Following his death Finney was cryogenically frozen by the Alcor Life Extension Foundation.

https://www.alcor.org/

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[HOLA]

"For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end." - Anatole France

 

[Papi Chulo]

What a scam

I'm sure this will turn out well.

 

[Liquid Samurai]

Some Vanilla Sky type shit. Love that movie

 

[K1levelgrappler]

Hal Finny, Cyberpunk

 

[StoneColdSteveAustin]

Those people in the OP look like they should be selling used furniture out of a trailer in Kentucky.

 

[Wadtucket]

Cringe Boogaloo Resurrection LARPers

 

[JDragon]

I mean how could you not support this? People who do this should be considerably wealthy. And apparently they are quite afraid of dying, so maybe it gives them some solace. Others give money to their respective churches, at least Alcor (I assume) is paying taxes.

And in the 0.01% chance that they will be successful, not only will they have cheated death and lived another day, but also effectively traveled into the future and potentially helped to develop a method for longer distances in space travel

 

[Grassshoppa]

@colby25 But is their soul held in limbo/purgatory until they are awakened? Being frozen sounds hellish if you believe in heaven. You're just gone. At least in heaven you're in heaven.

 

[HOLA]

@colby25 But is their soul held in limbo/purgatory until they are awakened? Being frozen sounds hellish if you believe in heaven. You're just gone. At least in heaven you're in heaven.

It would be like before you were born. You weren't in hell you were just...nothing.

Most people who "die" say that's what it is like before they're brought back - nothing. Of course every once in a while you get that kid who claims he went to heaven and played hopscotch with Jesus.

 

[mkess101]

I mean how could you not support this? People who do this should be considerably wealthy. And apparently they are quite afraid of dying, so maybe it gives them some solace. Others give money to their respective churches, at least Alcor (I assume) is paying taxes.

And in the 0.01% chance that they will be successful, not only will they have cheated death and lived another day, but also effectively traveled into the future and potentially helped to develop a method for longer distances in space travel

.01% chance...

You think there's a 1 in 1000 chance these people win a death match with...death???

 

[JDragon]

.01% chance...

You think there's a 1 in 1000 chance these people win a death match with...death???

Nope, that would be 0.1%


Edit: most likely outcome is some technical failure and they melt / company goes bankrupt in 10-15 years.

 

[mkess101]

Nope, that would be 0.1%

Bah I misread it dammit LOL. Also...I drank a lot tonight.

So...a 1 in 10,000 chance then??? That still seems extraordinarily generous. By maybe...a billionfold haha.

 

[nostradumbass]

<{cruzshake}>

Have fun waking up in 2070. I'll pass on that.

Wood travel back to 1980 and smash that nutty chick when she was 30 though.

 

[Trainspotter]

Some Vanilla Sky type shit. Love that movie

I’ll see you in another life, when we are both cats.

 

[JDragon]

Bah I misread it dammit LOL. Also...I drank a lot tonight.

So...a 1 in 10,000 chance then??? That still seems extraordinarily generous. By maybe...a billionfold haha.

Well you know I'd say chances are 1 in 10 that whatever caused their death becomes treatable in the next 200 years. And 1 in 100 it will be possible to unfreeze them without irreparable damage. And 1 in 1000 they will have uninterrupted operations. So maybe more like 0.0001% chance.

 

[mkess101]

Well you know I'd say chances are 1 in 10 that whatever caused their death becomes treatable in the next 200 years. And 1 in 100 it will be possible to unfreeze them without irreparable damage. And 1 in 1000 they will have uninterrupted operations. So maybe more like 0.0001% chance.

Fair.

 

[Papi Chulo]

@colby25 But is their soul held in limbo/purgatory until they are awakened? Being frozen sounds hellish if you believe in heaven. You're just gone. At least in heaven you're in heaven.

If they aren't dead, they aren't dead. Just in a coma.

Or these people are already dead and they just froze the body

 

[Paradigm]

Fuck Alcor!!! As a Red Sox fan, what they did to Ted Williams was disgusting.

"Johnson says Alcor used the cans, from a cat that lived on the premises, as pedestals for the heads.

Williams' head was being transferred from one container to another when the monkey wrench incident took place, Johnson said in the book. When the head was removed from the first container, Johnson described it.

"The disembodied face set in that awful, frozen scream looked nothing like any picture of Ted Williams I've ever seen," he wrote.

Johnson said that an Alcor employee tried in vain to remove the tuna can.

"Then he grabbed a monkey wrench, heaved a mighty swing, missing the tuna can completely but hitting the head dead center," Johnson wrote. "Tiny pieces of frozen head sprayed around the room."

The next swing, Johnson wrote, knocked the can loose."

"Johnson paints a macabre scene in a room packed with people, many of whom posed for pictures with Williams' body, both before and after the head was cut off. The book contends the head was "hanging by a thread" when an official entered the room and shouted that it was supposed to be a full-body freezing.

Williams' head and body were frozen separately, Johnson wrote."

https://www.espn.com/boston/mlb/news/story?id=4524957

 

[Social Distance Warrior]

Some Vanilla Sky type shit. Love that movie

Exactly what I was thinking...
I'm one of the few who likes this more than the original