cryopreserved

When two or three people are cryopreserved, novelty is enough, but what about when thousands or millions are?

Technology advanced enough to revive a cryopreserved patient will likely be able to fix the original medium.

I don't think anyone getting cryopreserved today expects to be woken up for at least a century.

The cryopreserved person simply wasn't truly dead yet in such a scenario.

I have signed up for cryonics, and I will hopefully be cryopreserved at death, to be revived in the distant future.

If this is the first time memories have been recovered from a cryopreserved organism, this should be in a top journal as it's great news.

Not reviving cryopreserved people is equivalent to leaving them to die...

Subject to advanced enough technology, which cryopreserved people are hedging against.

The title clearly reads that he's being cryopreserved.

One can argue against economics of such, and the cost a cryopreserved person imposes on the living, but comparing it to faith in God and resurrection is IMO wrong.

> if you can't believe that a cryopreserved person can be revived in principle...

Electron micrography of cryopreserved tissue shows pretty good preservation[0][1], and since every aspect of the mind is dependent on physical properties of the brain, the possibility of revival exists as long as structure and context are preserved in the brain.

It sounds from the language used ("he did not want his vital functions supported any further but should be allowed to cease functioning and promptly be cryopreserved") that he didn't regard this moment as death at all - merely pausing his life until a) ALS is curable and b) we have the technology to reawaken cryopreserved people.

Molecular nanotech, which seems to be the holy grail for restoring cryopreserved patients, is something that is known to work (it's called "life"), and the only missing link is that we don't have much control over it yet.