cryogenics [Freeze yourself and wake up in the future]

[fenkeN]

If you decide to have yourself placed in cryonic suspension, what happens to you?
Well, first, you have to join a cryonics facility and pay an annual membership fee (in the area of $400 a year).
Then, when your heart stops beating and you are pronounced "legally dead," an emergency response team from the facility springs into action.
The team stabilizes your body, supplying your brain with enough oxygen and blood to preserve minimal function until you can be transported to the suspension facility. Your body is packed in ice and injected with heparin (an anticoagulant) to prevent your blood from clotting during the trip.
A medical team awaits the arrival of your body at the cryonics facility.

Once you are transported to the cryonics facility, the actual "freezing" begins.
Cryonics facilities can't simply put their patients into a vat of liquid nitrogen, because the water inside their cells would freeze.
When water freezes, it expands -- this would cause the cells to simply shatter.
The cryonics team must first remove the water from your cells and replace it with a glycerol-based chemical mixture called a cryoprotectant -- a sort of human antifreeze. The goal is to protect the organs and tissues from forming ice crystals at extremely low temperatures. This process, called vitrification (deep cooling without freezing), puts the cells into a state of suspended animation.

Once the water in your body is replaced with the cryoprotectant, your body is cooled on a bed of dry ice until it reaches -130 C (-202 F), completing the vitrification process. The next step is to insert your body into an individual container that is then placed into a large metal tank filled with liquid nitrogen at a temperature of around -196 degrees Celsius (-320 degrees Fahrenheit). Your body is stored head down, so if there were ever a leak in the tank, your brain would stay immersed in the freezing liquid.

Cryonics isn't cheap -- it can cost up to $150,000 to have your whole body preserved. But for the more frugal futurists, a mere $50,000 will preserve your brain for perpetuity -- an option known as neurosuspension. Hopefully for those who have been preserved this way, technology will come up with a way to clone or regenerate the rest of the body.



TL;DR

Freeze yourself, put their patients into a vat of liquid nitrogen because the water inside their cells would freeze.
The cryonics team must first remove the water from your cells and replace it with a glycerol-based chemical mixture called a cryoprotectant -- a sort of human antifreeze.
The goal is to protect the organs and tissues from forming ice crystals at extremely low temperatures.
But it can cost up to $150,000.
/DISSCUSS

[Frank]

>Vanilla Sky
>Walt Disney
>Futurama

[Tomcat]

Yep
Walt Disney Is Frozen

[Jman]

if anyones heard of the artemis fowl series butler gets teh frozen in there 

[Mr. Franklin]

Yep
Walt Disney Is Frozen

[Devie]

I don't think I am comfortable with
"legally dead". But that's just me.

Well, when there is a zombie apocalypse and I'm a zombie,
I'm gonna make sure to claim my frozen pizza
I mean brain.

Also:

Walt Disney's death certificate -- and yes, he did have one -- indicates that he died of lung cancer in December of 1966. In accordance with his wishes, Disney was cremated two days later and buried in a marked plot. There is plenty of documentation to support these assertions.

There is also written documentation showing that Disney specifically requested not to have a funeral which explains why his memorial service -- if any -- happened away from the prying eyes of fans and reporters.

[Cake Faice]

If your legally dead by your heart stopping, thus shutting down all brain activities...how can you be supplied with oxygen to the brain within 7 minutes AND STILL BE DEAD. Wouldn't that make your brain re-function, thus carrying on with all of your body functions and motor skills...thus making you a zombie but minus the lack of motor skills/rotting corpse and urge for brains?

[Bovicide]

Just because your brain is not dead does not mean that you are conscious and aware.

An example is sleeping.

Or being in a coma.

[» Magic «]

So that's where hitler is...


OMFG LORD SAVE THE PAKI'S


I was jk slaughter them all

[Кrаsher]

I would go to the year 2020, then spit in everyones face for lying.

"Expected to arrive in 2020! The new Flying Vehicle!" MY ASS

[Rocket50]

If you die of old age, and they pronounce you legally dead, how will your body's functions re-start after they shut down because of aging? 

[xxMingebaggerxx]

would do it provided i had the chance..
but id go on the 5th or so batch, so i would be sure that i wouldnt.. die
and 50% chance that the 1st batch dies of somekind of failure