If Cryonics was proven to work, would you want it done to you after death?

Just your head? What good would that do? Assuming money was no object, I might give it a whirl.

Your head would ensure that the most important part got saved ..your brain. Many just want their brain saved ..just in case, in the future, it can be put into a synthetic robotic like body. It would still be you but in a different body. Oh, and it costs much more to get your body done.

No,once I’m gone,I’m gone.As for loved ones doing this? Great! I’ll take their head out for bowling and a beer.;)

I had a friend, who was like a brother, who worked for the cryonics industry for many years. He is currently frozen to allow himself to be used for the science. He died too early, at age 42. Everyone in his family and his friends supported his decision to do so. It’s interesting to think about!

He was also on staff when Ted Williams was frozen as well. Article

That would be totally cool! ;¬}
Bring it on Demolition Man.

When you say “proven to work,” what do you mean? Do you mean that it is proven that the people could be resuscitated? As in, someone had been resuscitated? Then, sure, I’d do it. But until then, I think it’s a waste of money.

Hell yeah I’d want to do it if it worked. Why? I like being alive.

I don’t think I’d want a thawed ancient carcass, and then head only thing is just bizarre.

I’m not into chillaxin’ for years.

I wouldn’t—death is a part of life, decay and my particles reintegrating with the universe is a part of life.

If I trust life, and trust there’s meaning to it, then there’s meaning to death, too… If it’s ultimately meaningless, I don’t want to do it again. Waste of time… And dying twice—that would suck. Immortality—never has appealed to me.

No thank you.

I’d love to see the future, but where do you get out? 2111 would be damned cool. 2211 would be sure to blow your mind. 2311, maybe 7 Chinese Emperors rule the entirety of Earth from their orbiting palaces and everyone lives in 7 separate megalopoleis made entirely from plastic… Okay that’d would still be cool, but maybe by 2511, noone understands my 21st Century English…

at the same time, I’d like to see 1,000 or 10,000 years into the future. Even if the whole world is a barren wasteland, and humans long extinct. That would at least be some comfort.

But yeah, if they do sort it out I’ll probably have it done. I’ll roll a dice to decide when I wake up.

Anyway, the plan is to grow brainless clones of myself and have a brain transplant every 50 years or so. So hopefully I won’t have to worry about cryonics =]

No. I’m excited to see what happens after death!

If I do end up in some magical heaven custom made for me with 100’s of acres of beautiful land and a giant goose pond with weeping willow trees and an island, and, and, my very own mind blowing tree house and all the cheesecake and champagne and mexican food I can eat without gaining a lb….well no, don’t bring me back! lol

Nah, I’m content to return to dust, as it should be.

The world doesn’t need a bunch of recycled frozen zombies competing with new life.

You got your turn, be content. ;-)

That’s a very good point @Coloma. I think if I was in my ultimate heavenly peace, I’d just not allow the scientists or robots to wake me up. Although, why would I need waking up ..if I could see how the world was from my magical heaven.. lol.

I still think it would be really neat to be able to freeze my brain and come back in a hundred years or so. Just to see where humanity has taken itself ..and well, it would be a whole new life experience. I’d think that if people were able to be revived through cryonics in the future, that death again would be hard to achieve. Which may be an issue ..lol.

Having my dog frozen, with me, would be neat as well ..oh, and of course my partner (that’s a given) if she wants to.

@PluckyDog

It would be kinda fun to see the time warp thing…we’d be so outta the loop I imagine.
Strangers in a strange land.

I hope for my goose heaven. lol

Though not all of mainstream Western science acknowledges it yet, many of our emotions, memories, and so on, are not just stored in the brain, but in the rest of the body as well, so I’d recommend keeping that. Um, sure, sounds good, sign me up. ;-)