Sydney man becomes cryonics facility's first client, with hopes he will eventually be brought back to life
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An unexpected dying request has resulted in a Sydney man being cryogenically frozen in a groundbreaking Australian move.
  • In short: A cryonics company has frozen its first client in Australia in the hope of bringing him back to life in the future.
  • The client, a man in his 80s, died in Sydney before being frozen at minus 200 degrees Celsius at a Holbrook facility.
  • What’s next? The cryonics facility is expecting higher demand as its membership base ages, although it’s still unknown whether anyone preserved this way can ever be revived.
  • Ilandar@aussie.zone
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    6 months ago

    I’d like to live an extended life (age slower), though that would also be dependent on how many of my friends and family could live alongside me. I don’t know about forever, that’s a pretty difficult concept for me to grasp. I am scared of death but that’s more a fear of ceasing to exist before I’m ready, more than ceasing to exist at all. Regardless, humanity will face so many challenges within this century that there’s a possibility none of this matters anyway. We could all be wiped out, or the world could be so different (in a dangerous or just alienating way) that I might just be ready to go earlier than I can imagine at this stage of my life.