Are You Going To Wake Up From Cryosleep?

More than 300 people let their bodies have cooled down to -200 Celsius and preserved in liquid nitrogen in the hope that someday in the future, science will be able to cheat death and make them wake up from their Sleeping Beauty state. As of today, no one knows whether they will ever have the chance for a second life. Here’s our overview of cryonics, cryosleep, and cryotherapy. Relax, David, open your eyes! That’s the last line from Vanilla Sky, the movie remake about a wealthy playboy in cryosleep waking up after 150 years from his lucid dream (starring Tom Cruise as David). The audience doesn’t know what happens next, and whether he can survive the procedure, not to speak about living in a society where every one of his friends and relatives is dead, and people live a completely different way of life than he was used to. Concerns about the feasibility of cryonics as well as its “afterlife” are as old as the birth of the idea that people could fall asleep for a long time and wake as nothing happened – isn’t Snow White about cryonics, really? Nevertheless, the idea of preserving bodies in some liquid cooled down to below zero temperatures appears in many sci-fi movies indicating the concept has interested the audience already for a while. Do you remember Han Solo being hibernated in The Empire Strikes Back? And Ellen Ripley and the crew waking up in a cryotube used for interstellar travel in the Alien series? Recently, cryonics and cryosleep are getting more and...
Source: The Medical Futurist - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: Bioethics Cyborgization Medical Science Fiction Patients Researchers Space Medicine cryogenics cryonics cryosleep cryotherapy death future Innovation life longevity mars NASA scifi space travel Source Type: blogs