Are they Delusional?!
Question: Do you think that people who have themselves frozen cryogenically are delusional to think that we will EVER be able to actually thaw them out and fix their medical problems? I am especially talking about those that have their heads chopped off and frozen, and seem to think we can reconnect it in the future to another body. This will NEVER be possible, if you ask me. What is your opinion on this?
Answers: Do you think that people who have themselves frozen cryogenically are delusional to think that we will EVER be able to actually thaw them out and fix their medical problems? I am especially talking about those that have their heads chopped off and frozen, and seem to think we can reconnect it in the future to another body. This will NEVER be possible, if you ask me. What is your opinion on this?
Remember in science that you should never say never. I will agree with you though that the proposed reanimation is extremely unlikely to ever reach fruition. If they are not delusional then they are at least extreme dreamers grasping at microscopic straws. The complex multiple and intricate connections involved in reattaching an entire head (and spinal column) to another body is virtually impossible. (Even in the near future.) We would probably need hundreds if not thousands of years to get to this stage of "head re-attachment surgery." Just think if it actually worked and then the body rejected its own head as a foreign object? (LOL)
Unlikely, but technology went from being basically being steam powered to the nuclear / digital age in about 50 years...so technology can grow at a dramatic pace and a lot of things once thought impossible can become possible in half a century. Who knows, but they were dead anyways so what have they got to lose?
I agree that there are serious implications and a lot of unknowns as to what the person and their life would be like after being re-awakened and/or re-attached. I'd bet the first few saps to be halfway successful test subjects will be a human head on a monkey's body. Creepy, yet mildly amusing to look at...especially if they dance for change in a cup.
If the heads can be placed in suspended animation, it is probably possible to revive them. Since the heads are being frozen, it is more likely that the cells will burst as the water in them crystallizes and expands, making any kind of resuscitation impossible.
Personally, I would put it nicer and call them overly hopeful..... but yeah, some are delusional for some of the illnesses they are hoping to fix. Now, the people that only freeze their heads... they have a little too much faith in science fiction. LOL!
As far as that being "never" possible, I would disagree with that. Who knows if maybe in several hundred years, we may have mapped the human brain and are able to make a prosthetic body or keep a brain in a jar where it can live and interact with us. Heck, 150 years ago, people would have been declared insane if they thought a man could walk on the moon, but science proved them wrong eventually.... you never know what we'll discover in the future.
I think nothing is impossible.
But, I do think its silly.
Fear of death is rediculous, because it takes up other people's funding and tax money to experiment with them unfailry in the future when we've got bigger fish to fry as we see the track record of our medical mistakes.