Can You Cryogenically Freeze Your Body and Come Back to Life? 

Did you know that some species of frog can survive freezing? When the wood frog, found in North America, begins to freeze it releases sugar--from its liver--into its bloodstream. That sugar travels to its tissues where it helps keep cells from dehydrating and shrinking. Cool, right? Sadly, we humans don’t have this adaptation and with cryonics we’d be frozen AFTER we’re already dead (these incredible frogs are still alive!). So, no dice.

If this actually worked. Imagine basically going to sleep and instantly (from your perspective) wake up hundreds of years into the future.

So I can't get frozen for 1,000 years and get thawed out and have a robot best friend and get married to a mutant cyclops?

I think preserving the connections between neurons is more important than keeping the cells alive. It's possible that the cells could be repaired after dying in the future.

I am up for it. The less people who are interested at this point the better it is for me and other time travelers.

There’s a Netflix documentary about this. An Asian family did this with their little girl who had the world’s deadliest brain tumor. 😔

I would be frozen alive just makes more sense than dying and then being frozen

If anyone is watching this from the future please revive me lol

Interesting story, but I wish I hadn't watched it over breakfast, with our Thanksgiving turkey thawing in the refrigerator....! 🙊

Imagine being the one guy that drops the dead body after its frozen so it just shatters, that would be a fun trip to the boss's office

Why not just freeze a pig or something? Say... 6 months? A year? Then take it out. Also have 2 tests, one with Cryoprotectants, one without.

Am I the only one who reads these comments and thinks about someone reading them and laughing at them 200 years later? btw if you are from the future feel free to revive me somehow, we can have a fun conversation :D

I’m terrified of death just nearly had a panic attack thinking about it

How I see it. It doesn't matter how damaged the body is now when you freeze it. It only matters how advanced technology we have to resurrect these people. I think that most even damaged people can be resurrected in perfect condition given time. It might take 1000 years to get that point, but it doesn't matter. For me if I got money and I was close to death I would choose to freeze myself. It is risks but better than to be dead for sure.

The whole point of cryonics is a bet on technologies of the FUTURE, not the capabilities of the past or present, which is why most of this video isn't relevant. As long as the neurons can be successfully preserved, that's all that's important for now. If advanced molecular nanotechnology comes to pass within the next couple of decades (as predicted), we should have a pathway for either repairing all the damage and reviving the "corpsicle," or copying the brain pattern to reconstruct it in a computer architecture (which could "live" in a virtual world or be downloaded to an advanced robotic form that is perhaps indistinguishable from humans). So what are the odds of this occurring and people being revived? 50%? 10%? 1%? Well, if you DON'T get cryogenically frozen, the odds of being revived are exactly 0%. So if you have the money, what do you have to lose? You can't take it with you....

If we had the technology to properly store someone indefinitely, we'd have the technology to keep them from dying in the first place

I read a book once, about an old man who did this to himself and was very rich obviously, and when he woke up his body was on display in a museum with all his memories being shown up on tvs, there were wires coursing through his veins, and he was stuck inside the glass chamber, while people looked at him, unable to move. I felt bad for him if he had social anxiety that must have been a nightmare.

4:29 This is where she essentially says no, no you can not.

Imagine how much therapy you'll need to wrap your head around living, dying, & returning...

You know, people are wondering about the success of this thing. What I'm wondering is how long will they live after being "reborn".

I would pay $400,000 to be reanimated in 200 years. That seems a pretty solid investment. Because cryonics has more uses than giving hope to the dying, it has implications for space travel, and preservation, its slowly building into an industry all it’s own. It wont be long before before SpaceX or Google buys up some of these smaller companies. We are at the very start of a snowball effect and in the next 30 years we will see cryogenics boom as an industry. I see real hope in the future. Even if it dosnt work, its not like you’ll miss the money.

It would be just my luck for my brain to wake up, and realize I was cryogenically frozen, but be unable to move, or speak, or even let anyone know that I was alive! Can you imagine spending hundreds of years in that state? It is like surgical awareness that sometimes occurs to a patient under anesthesia, who is undergoing surgery. They are aware of what is going on, but paralyzed, and cannot let anyone know.

She's a hater! At the end she said you can literally spend your money on anything else. Cryogenics gives people hope! I'm fighting to live, not living to die.

Not that much related, but on a side note, i think it's more possible that science in the next 100 years helps our life expectancy increases to double (~160-170 years old) that our actual amount than to restore dead frozen people. Still, i think it's worth taking a shot if you have the money and still scientifically possible (but remote) if you believe.

What if We build an Space Cemeteries on the Moon to preserve our corpse without Chemicals?

I WANT TO BE CRYOGENICALLY FROZEN I WANT TO LIVE FOREVER

If this ever becomes possible it might be possible to meet your great grandparents great grandparents.

I do believe that someday maybe in the near future humans will be able to live forever or for a long time at least, i think it’s easier for scientists to make a human being keep living than bringing back a frozen corpse

I'm already dead inside, can i get frozen to be revived in the future?

Imagine fooling someone they time traveled with this

i personally dont think its possible to fully freeze a human and bring them back no matter how you do it

Very good info. This Channel deserves a lot of views and likes. 👌👍

Betteridge's law of headlines.

They are supposed to take out the blood because when it's unthawed, it can turn into tiny ice shards and tear apart your blood vessels.

interesting idea thats known by people but i agree the scale up from cells to a human is not that straight forward

Korean drama melting me softly

Would your skin be all wrinkly and weird after being frozen for so long? Will you get freezer burn? Is it more easier to lose a limb while frozen?

I don't know what's more scary the thought of dying or living forever

I remember hearing about this years ago. I was like man for you, it would be like you went to sleep and wake up in the future. Nice

This video would have been better if you had discussed the topic with cryonics proponents to get a clear picture of their actual claims and positions. It's generally assumed that some form of molecular repair, or something equivalent, will be needed *before* the cells are thawed, so all the talk about cells surviving thawing or not is irrelevant. Cryonicists don't mainly fear ice crystals because they kill cells, but because ice crystals mechanically displace and scramble tissues in ways which are not fully understood, and there's a risk that the healthy state of the neuron can't be inferred from its damaged state, so even molecular repair would be useless. It may well be that the information is preserved after all, even in straight frozen brains, but vitrified brains look much better under the microscope, with our limited observation technologies, so it seems a safer bet. It's true that cell viability is emphasized as a convenient and useful proxy to measure the general quality of the cryopreservation, but the growing interest among many cronicists in effective but very lethal techniques such as ASC (aldehyde-stabilized cryopreservation) goes to show that for them it's ultimately about preserving information, not cell viability as such. The way ice crystals damage cells is not accurately portrayed either. For starters, the cooling process in cryonics (at least in the old protocols that invoved significant ice formation) is very slow, to avoid the formation of intracellular ice. Again, not because intracellular ice takes up more space than liquid water, but because it tends to displace, crush (not burst) and otherwise damage organelles, membranes and other vital parts of the cell. Now, extracellular ice tends to remove water from cells, IOW cells are dehydrated to the point they collapse (not burst) and are chemically damaged by the rising ion concentration. This ice can also displace and mechanically damage the extracellular matrix, and dislodge cells from their original spots. The point of the worm experiment is to show that memories can survive LN2 temperatures. We already knew they survive a flat EEG and near-freezing temperatures in humans, and we already knew that some relatively large animals like frogs survive freezing (but not to LN2 temperatures) and that tiny animals like C elegans survive freezing to LN2 temperatures, but we didn't know whether these remember anything after behing thawed. Now we do.

Hold on, Are you seriously saying that the crazy scientist from the outer worlds talkin about rapid cellular explosion was telling the truth?!

Kudos on the "Phil" reference :) - Better off Ted - the best TV series EVER that got cancelled after just 2 seasons :(

What about Paulys mate he was found in a block of ice ?

Weird thing is for them if somehow they found a way to bring them back they died then came right back but in the future

"giant robotic spider legs" i see what you did there

I feel like even if you were frozen with Cryogenics, you wouldn't wake up how you would expect it. For all we know, their opinions on human rights could even be a lot different from now. They might throw us into a simulation, and make us replay our past lives over and over again to obtain information about the past. (I would hate it, but its still a possibility.) Or we might already be revived, and are recuperating in some kind of "Past Generator" that helps our brains recall our memories so we don't go into shock when our minds are revived. You know, I've had some vivid and short dreams of the future since I was young. I would have short visions then they would occur in real life out of nowhere. As if it was replaying something that had already happened. However, I usually immediately forget about these visions after waking up, and they only come back to me when I experience them in real life. It just clicks like: "Ah, this is that dream I had back then..." I've actually managed to make a few small changes, but the butterfly effect doesn't really do what we expect it to. Its like the past and future try to patch things together to conserve energy. The other dreams that I had before still pop up as well. If you're wondering, there isn't a set sequence in which these dreams happen. Dream 1 could happen after Dream 2, and vice versa. Still, these dreams happen anyway. Despite the small changes I make. Recently however, its become more difficult to make any changes. As if I were being monitored and forced to follow the timeline. By the time I remember something, its already happened, or I remember in that moment and end up following the set path anyway. I've also had moments where in those dreams I realize that its a future vision, and tell myself to try and change it. Like sitting down at a computer screen, then getting up as if someone was coming. Trying to open the door and catch them to prove the future. I proceed to then follow the dream exactly without a single change like I realize its that vision dream, and I get up from the computer thinking someone is coming and open the door. But no one comes. By the time all of this ends, I realize that I just followed some kind of set determined path despite realizing it was going to happen. Believe me or not about this, but I feel like I may not be the only person in this world this happens to. There must be something more than what we humans know about reality and how it works. Perhaps science is just a way of satisfying our doubts and preventing us from finding out the truth. Or maybe science is something that is built along the way, and appears out of thin air to fill in the holes that get left behind in our reality. Does anyone else happen to get the same kind of vision dreams by any chance?

Hope is slim sure, especially looking through a Lense of our current understanding. My thought is if you have the expendable money (which already rules out a lot of people unfortunately) and you are not frozen until you actually are declared dead, you really have nothing to lose. You either just remain dead or you get revived at some point. Only downside is attempting to acclimate to whatever era you are brought into. Also fun tangent, lots of people bring up “what if you are brought back and the world is waring/diseased/collapsing” ie: ‘the world is not a good place to be’. I can’t help but think if it was really that bad, they wouldn’t bring you back

There is a device that can freeze your body but not have your cells damaged . Used to transport transplants

The only thing I want to know is, will I have to help a settlement

what if the technology is so advance it wont work on the outdated cryonic they were preserved in ? ... like trying to run ios14 on iPhone 3gs .... no chance

Well if they die they die but if they are lucky and able to come back to life than it’s worth it

Imagine waking up in a universe court after being frozen

If you freeze yourself hoping to come back to life in the future.. what about the cycle of once you die you are reborn again.. would that still happened if you are frozen for years?

Either way guys you have only one life love it to the fullest and enjoy it

At that point I'd assume humanity wouldn't even bother reviving dead people, they'd be out conquering the universe

Well, so much for having myself frozen after death and coming back in a few hundred years. This vid sucked the fun right out of that plan. Lol!

I can imagine waking up and ppl being like "wow it actually worked" or "we're literally living with someone fron the past omlll"

The thing is, if you know you are dying, what do you have to LOSE by trying cryonics? If they are unable to bring you back, well, then you just stay dead, which is what would happen anyway. If they can bring you back, well, you get another chance. Suppose we could measure the likelihood of science learning to reanimate the cryonically frozen. Suppose the likelihood was one tenth of one percent. You're dying. If you don't do it, you have no chance of coming back. If you do cryonic freezing, you have one tenth of one percent chance of coming back. It is a small chance, but, isn't that better than nothing? And, since you're dying, you know what they say about money, you cannot take it with you. Why NOT spend the last of your money on creating this wild one tenth of one percent chance?

Why don't they try to Un Cryo someone who has already been croyo to see if its possible?

I froze ants and bees before and they came back to life. Lol.

Her hands are looking mighty red at the bottom of the frame! What is happening there?

I want this to be possible

I would love to be frozen inside the capsule and get the best sleep forever

Wait what, if dead body is already almost impossible to ressurect then why the hell freezing it and thawing it make it better? I mean, you're dead in the first place and before freezing someone, one have to revive someone back to life just after his death. Rather than damaging more cells when freezing. 🤦🏽‍♂️

How can a hypothesis with no further evidence make sense to push foward

Honestly cryofrezing is scary like when I think about it it makes me cry a bit like on one hand ur practically immortal but on the other hand everyone and everything u once known or loved is dead so it’s a double edged sword

Imagine coming back all messed up with no eye sight, no hearing, chronic pain everywhere and cancer or something worse, I’d want to die immediately.

WE ALL WANNA LIVE FOR EVER

So basically futeruma in a nutshell

At 0:42, did you guys mix up the definition of cryonics and cryogenics?

Death. cannot be cheated.

Well anything is possible 🤷🏽‍♂️

wouldt it make more sense to cause an intense metabolic decrease and a coma, so basically put them in hibernation where as we could probably last 200 years if done correctly and its in our scientific grasp as it literally already exists in nature. also coma patient after a while become retarted but hopefully in 50 years time we could prevent this.

If this did work, the frozen people will not know of any of this like it would be a second and they're in the future

How to contact the company for freezing?

"...have your ashes loaded into fireworks so you can rain down on people on the 4th of July..." Wait a minute...that's an option??

I want to do this, it would be cool but I wanna tell ‘em don’t bring me back till we can reverse age, I don’t wanna be frozen early in life, I wanna be frozen after I die so I can live my life normally then be revived and reverse my age a bit

How about if someone is given the cryopreservation chemicals while alive as a means of assisted suicide in a place where AS is legal?

Yes please

is it possible to store a living body theoretically. pls answer

It's too scary to die, I'll have to be carried inside a cemetery, and buried alive

Well i mean i respect people who do this despite the truth if it's for contributing science

If I ever get terminally ill, freeze my head Less than most of my body to protect it

Such a crazy idea...

4:02 Untill now!

Lol all you have to do is use the reanimation jutsu

me after watching melting me softly

Hopefully we’re almost near a breakthrough of human Torpor

The answer is we don’t know

I just fine this beautiful woman's educational narration and personality attractive.

What if the company with the giant freezer that is storing your frozen head goes out of business? lol...also, considering the technology may not exist for centuries or ever...how the hell will these heads remain frozen? wars, lack of power, some crazy clown, crazy weather events, etc.

How can it work when your spirit leaves your body when you die so if your body comes back to life there’s not gonna be any spirit or soul in there you’re going to be a zombie

I first witnessed this on captain caveman

Never.ever only GOD can give life back and he promise that in the bible he will come back again we living in the last period stay ready

Imagine waking up 100 years later and have to catch up 😮

So that is how the head museum works

I’m currently going to get frozen in a year wish me the best of lucks guys

So you.get on ice and then become reborn? Piece of cake.

Chance of reanimation with cryonics - tiny Chance of reanimation without cryonics - zero

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