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Even if I wanted to be frozen, there is no point. One would have no guarantees that you wouldn't just be thawed and disposed later so the company can sell more stasis slots. Or if they decide to even try to keep their word, they could maintain your stasis so badly that you would die from that or maybe thaw partially occasionally or something. Unless you are billionaire and could afford somekind of insurance that makes sure nothing happens to you, there would be absolutely nothing protecting you.

And even if everything went according to plan, society could collapse in such way maintaining the stasis could become impossible due to lack of resources.

Neither, I want to have my brain scan put into a robot and live forever. Or exchange body parts for robot replacements till I'm a robot ship of Theseus.

If you can beat 'em, join 'em!

Retire, i don't think I could stand living in the future. I'd definitely love reading a summary of what's coming up next just before I die though.

Jane, get me off this crazy thing!

I'd rather retire and die in piece than wake up to an unfamiliar world.

Please give me the dignity of death.
I will not be a slave for an ultrawealthy megacorporation.

none of that shit works and won't work for a good minute, cryonics is rapture for nerds that take scifi way too seriously

what we already know tho is that because there's one payment to store meat popsicle effectively forever and this shit is ran by true believer techbros, it tends to run out of money pretty regularly. that means they run out of liquid nitrogen and meat popsicles thaw, and this already happened more than once

I'd like to retire till I'm incapable of taking care of myself. Then freeze my head

I think I'd go the Bobiverse route so I both get to die and be a self-replicating spaceship.

I wish I had the confidence in mankind's future to consider cryogenic freezing...

When I thought the world had a future, I would have opted for cryogenics.

But I am 100% that we are on our way to the big reset button.

Not necessarily extinction, per se. But a societal bottleneck where a man-made catastrophe throws the survivors back technologically and we have to start the climb all over.

Getting past that point to the realm of actually achieving the technology necessary to unfreeze me seems unlikely. So cryogenics is just death with a preserved corpse.

I'll take death. The sooner the better, lately.

When I unfreeze myself, will the 93 cents in my bank account accrue interest and give me over 1 billion dollars?

Ask me this a couple months ago and I'd have opted for freezing me, no question. But I lost my person, and I've realized it's not that I was afraid to die or that I wanted life to go on forever. I wanted the life I had to go on forever. That's gone now. I'll opt for the end date on the tin.

If I could flip a switch and just stop my life like turning off a tv I'd do it immediately. Extending it?! Sheesh

Most days, I wish for another asteroid.

Humans have plagued this planet too long.

Unfreeze me for a week each year. I get to spend a day catching up on what's happened, mourning the dead, and then a few days exploring what's new, and then a day planning next year's excursions.

being rich is not the solution to rising ocean waters, fascist dictatorships and weapons stockpiling.

stop idolizing billionaires. they're garbage human beings.

This is a great listen if you want to know about what’s going on with cryogenics https://www.thisamericanlife.org/354/mistakes-were-made/act-one-8

Uh, retire. I bet it's awful to be transported to the future, where no one knows you personally, and you don't even know anything in the future.

Only if I can sync up my cryo pod with my wife. I'd have to have someone to share the future with

I don't believe we have the tech yet, so I'm not gonna trust any such thing, its probabky snake oil.

But assuming that regulatory bodies around the world has already certified and approved it (meaning the ~~"dethaw"~~ "unfreezing" part has already been solved and is working), I would probably skip like 5 years at a time, watch all the TV shows and movies, then skip 5 years, repeat...

Otherwise, I wouldn't touch that thing with a meter stick. Snake oil.

it's only going to get worse from here. in another millennium all this will be under water.

Can we freeze someone else? I think we could fix things tbh.

Freeze my ass right now.