This Company Freezes Dead People, Hoping to Bring Them Back to Life
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 พ.ย. 2013
- A company called Alcor freezes dead people, hoping to restore them to health one day.
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i hope they never have problems with electricity
Marten Vermaut They must have many backup measures such as backup generators, etc.
There would be backups like generators, solar panels, UPS etc. He pointed out a man who died and been frozen since the 60s!
there must be tons of backup generators
The biggest concern would be the company going broke and not being able to afford to continue operations
@@robinnapoleon3065 I'm 19 I think we I get older like 60 or 80 these would have changed and the will know how to make the process safe enough to keep all those protein and neurons with no damage. By the way 2080 or 2100 the would be enable to resuscitate people tough, and the will resuscitate me back in 2150 or 2200.
I hope they successfully revive someone in my life time.
I hope they can't, that would be scary. Just imagine the things people could do.
Hope they revive me in a diffrent life time
Piped and drought same.
@Cyber Nova wow i never thought ab it like that
*News we have brought a man dead 100 years ago*a few hours later*BREaKIN NEWs Hitler brought back to life* :me welp byeeeeeeeee world
I wouldn't want to live sometime in the future knowing that my family and friends are long gone.
i mean
You will make new friends
theTRIOS What you said is stupid.
theTRIOS family makes you stronger love makes you stronger
JOE Bozza freeze them too
i can only imagine the culture shock of a person that has been frozen since 1967, being unfrozen in todays times. they may look at a 4k tv and think its a window.
the question is: if the company goes bankrupt who's going to take care of the frozen bodies?
the money is invested acrossed entire investment board in a perpetual endowment fund. The whole world economy would have to crash and at that point we would all be screwed. There is no guarantees except that if you don't sign up you are guaranteed to not have a chance.
graveyard lel
Real question is...what if the power stopped working
quelorepario Your mom!
Jack 123 They will probably have emergency generators.
The future will change everything - it always has.
Lance Winslow “oh, but maybe we can’t unfreeze them in the future”
People 100 years ago said that about people being unable to go into space.
Indeed, the future hold a lot of opportunities
Allow me to explain the biology behind it. So, when you first die you enter what is called “clinical death.” This is when your heart and lungs stop working but your cells are still alive. When that happens the brain does not receive blood and stops working. I don’t think I have to explain that when the brain stops receiving blood it stops working. When it stops working all the other organs follow suit since the brain sends the electrical signals to the muscles to make them work. If you can cure whatever put someone in clinical death, all it takes is a defibrillator to restart the heart and an oxygen pump to oxygenate it (or CPR also works) that causes the oxygenated blood to enter the brain and, if the cells are still alive, causes them to function again, causing your muscles to work, bringing you back. The brain just needs oxygenated blood. There are no muscles and the brain doesn’t need movement so there’s no need to reset it, simply supplying it with blood works. People are brought back from clinical death all the time. If we don’t have a cure for the specific reason you are IN clinical death (how you died) your cells will eventually die. When cells die you enter actual death. You cannot recover from actual death because cells decompose and will no longer function (so muscles won’t restart and the brain’s neurons will not fire again) what they do is, lower the temperature of your molecules to the point where they can no longer move (they technically can, but so slow that it’s practically frozen) when the molecules in your cells can’t move, the cell’s organs can’t break apart, also called decomposition. Upon unfreezing, they’re still alive, although you face the same issue as before. In the future, we will most likely have a cure to pretty much every disease and can easily bring people out of clinical death. The only problem is now that we can cure what initially caused clinical death, we also have to cure the clinical death caused by freezing them, which we cannot do currently.
There is a microscopic organism called a “tardigrade” or “water bears” that uses a similar method if environmental conditions are not ideal. They fill all their cells with a viscous liquid that holds all their cell’s organs in place so they can’t decompose (as freezing would do) which can keep them alive practically forever until the conditions become better in which they unfreeze their cells and they’re good as new.
Thanks 👍
Very insightful. But what about MEMORY, we get the physical makeup of the human organ & matter. But what is memory? Is MEMORY frozen in time? Or are these people resurrected vegetables?
@@osiris_blanche Memory is simply the signals and neurons in the brain rewiring. When those begin firing, they will fire in the same way as before, like restarting a computer. All of the changes made to the circuitry will still be there, all that there just has to be power again
@@flargarbason1740 Yes, but sure would be great if they can even fix half of the peeps with brain damage who ARE currently alive right now (let alone, a frozen one shriveled and depleted over decades)
@@osiris_blanche The whole point is to keep their cells alive until they can find a solution in the future. The whole point is to research how to cure people who are currently alive, then use that to cure the frozen people’s illnesses.
They also don’t have brain damage and nothing is “depleting” they are exactly how they were when they weren’t frozen, but just, you know, frozen. Their cells can’t die thus brain damage can’t ensue.
I'd rather live my life happily with my own family and friends than living forever or being cured in another time period...
I've got a friend who is there. I can't say if he is dead or alive. What I can't explain, is where does the money come from to keep him there.
Seriously?
I'm really sorry to hear that Mr. Henri d.
Or eaten by the British in the 1600's.
Before your friend died and was placed in liquid nitrogen, he signed an agreement where he would pay monthly dues or a one time fee. Then he either had a life insurance policy or some money setup where he made Alcor (or Cryonics Institute or one of the other cryo organizations) the beneficiary. Some of the money obviously goes into the cooling him off, transporting him, and surgery. The rest goes into a trust fund. This trust fund is conservatively invested to generate interest and returns. The trust's goals are: keep your friend at liquid nitrogen temperatures (cheap), have enough money in case the cryo organization goes out of business to keep the patients safe, ie paying rent/utilities on the building, and finally when possible to restore and revive them.
The trustees are paid nothing to do this. They are all volunteers.
@@trumpisaconfirmedcuck5840
You seem to be very knowledgeable.
Maybe you knew TKD.
he is talking about bringing people back to life like announcing a new brand of shoes of home appliances...... unbelievable!!!!!
😂
@@biennemouesla670 Souls don't exist.
@@biennemouesla670 Please keep religion out of this
@@cloudthief8918 This is not even religion, this is the nature of creatures. Say they can make fresh blood and beating heart, like the Israel PM who was dead in several years but his body was warm and his heart was beating, but no one can ever resurrect the dead.
And this is more insane, a body which is getting such cold, with lots of chemicals in it is even hard to make it natural again.
@@biennemouesla670 I agree with you, and everyone else that mentions religion there is nothing religious about saying your body has a soul, that's the only thing that makes us human. If we didn't have souls then you could literally make a Frankenstein out of random human parts with matching blood types. Also if anyone hasn't noticed when someone drowns and it takes longer than 5 minutes or whatever to be revived they come back brain dead.
In 70 years ima be 83 so I actually might live long enough to see this work
Same here, except I’ll be 85 in 70 years
Oh you here too (SuperMario) I know you want to enjoy your senses forever, and want all the good things in life. But this is fraudulent! It will never work. I can guarantee it.
You are a spirit soul and already eternal. Your real, eternal home is with God, with whom you can enjoy forever! Why do you want your body to be permanent?
@@Crazytesseractyour screen name suits you perfectly.
Nah I'll just put myself to freezer then live forever
That's what I'm gonna do
@@lilieb3606 I feel the need to say that if you put yourself in a freezer, ice crystals would form and would destroy your cells (including most of your brain) so that wouldn't work... Unless you injected yourself with an anti-freeze before hand..?
@@cloudthief8918 anti freeze is a poison isn't it? Lol I watch a lot of true crime.
Cloud Thief They were clearly joking
lilly mai The antifreeze you use in your car is. Antifreeze as a general term is just something with a VERY low freezing temperature that you can use to prevent something from freezing. Salt is a type of antifreeze.
Is anyone here after the Shane Dawson Video ? 💀
YAS I am!!
😂 I came down here specifically to look for a comment like this
how did you guess
Nicoo yesss I’m hooked on this
Me
Can I come and be frozen for 1000 years so when I wake up I can use the new technology
I need $36000 to cryogenically freeze my father.
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insomnia axl lol why
Salman Khan I believe in science. Now, I want to create cryonics company.
insomnia axl really
Salman Khan absolutely
"Forever is a very long time" ...yeah, kind of infinite amount of it.
They estimated by 2040/2050, so 20 or 30 years, that they will have the technology to bring them to life. so I believe within our lifetime, we're gonna see if these people are crazy or smart. I would love to see how this plays out in 20/30 years, the future is going to be crazy.
Natalie Monroe I doubt it will work
Yeah there is no way they will be able to do that in 20 years
they said that 50 years ago.
aj yeah people also said that we wouldn’t be able to go to space
it working it isn't crazy
So it is a cold graveyard
In a simple way.
I am watching this video in bed with a blanket on
No its a cold and massive scam
v.v.v.v jojo They’re clinically dead, not dead dead. People recover from clinical death all the time. They’re body is perfectly intact with no decomposition so they’re basically in the exact same state as when they were dead.
When I’m 65 and I know they can bring me back one day I’m getting frozen
Cory It’s not very expensive compared to what you’re getting. Especially since you can’t use money when you’re dead. As for being unfrozen, them saying there’s no guarantee is like hand sanitizer bottles saying it kills 99.9% of germs. It’s basically for liability, it’s very unlikely that there we’ll never be able to unfreeze them. There just isn’t a method currently.
As a comparison, 80 years ago, if you said humans will reach space, you’d be called an insane. But, in the 60s the first humans reached space. Then in that timespan, we reached the moon, we’re working on reaching mars, we even have humans in space at all times. The future is full of opportunities
What do you mean
I can't even imagine the psychological shock that these heads will suffer when they wake up decades later, in a complete different world, completely outdated, incapable of learning to function as other adults and without a body (this if humanity and this company still exists to defrost them)
I am certain that they would eventually catch up with the future society. But it would definitely take some time though…
Ummm they don't freeze they vitrify the patients. Also they will be grown new bodies. No it's not too far fetched.
@@TheCosmicMachine we will probably be ignorant about it.
Right...
This is pretty neat. The question is: Do you dream when you're frozen?
You cant dream because molecular brain chemistry needs to be fluid for a dream to exist. At Ln2 temps all is stopped. Its like going into surgery and waking up only in a future hospital. There's No dreaming when you are that deeply unconscious.
Just want to throw this out there, the guys in the metal tins are dead, they literally died before being frozen. No dreaming, just a hope of re-annimation in the future.
I'm curious to see how this works and hearing some of the thoughts of the older people from the 60's if possible. I won't hold my breath though and I think to live to around 100 is all the life you really need :-)
yikes, 100 you are breaking down, wearing diapers and waiting to die...if they can regenerate cells , that would be a whole other story
Your dead so ...
No way can you dream .
They dont do this untill the moment you die .
You dont.
Shane Dawson Brought Me Here 😂
Me too😳😳😳😳😳😳
Why would you wanna wake up say 500 years later with everyone you know gone and its a completely different world
In my opinion, it would be amazing. Knowing that there will more likely be a cure for terminal illnesses like AIDS, cancer, etc., and who knows what else new things we will find waking up to our new reality.
I mean if you're rich you can pay for your parents
So you can enjoy the new technological advancements. What if you can explore space and travel to other planets in 500 years?
This has great potential . I don't see why more people are not interested in this.
People playing God
MrSidney9 that’s part of a bigger plan, devil worshipping and the dajaal system
A Jones With that logic, any form of medical practise that prolongs patients’ lives or cures them would be considered ‘playing god’ as well. Don’t believe in god and even if there was one, he gave us the ability to ‘play god’, should cryonics ever prove successful. Your argument makes no sense. The only people I see playing god are the ones who speak for their god for the sake of their own ideals, which are most religious people in my experience.
@@arij8251 We have bypassed god by now. Assuming he exists
@@sadiev2778 man fails everytime God doesn't.
Cracking open a cold one with the boys
If this works to everyone who is frozen they die and wake up in the future instantly
Patient wakes up after 1000 years.
Patient : so are they flying cars?
Doctor : no , but trump is still president
Patient : freeze me back
"there is certainly no guarantee" lol
You're dead, how are you going to use the money?
@@flargarbason1740 why not do inherit it to your family or relatives instead?
Hans Riseli a Standard funeral can cost even more than this and you’d still have money to spare
True its a scam
khel caranto Not any more than life saving surgery. That’s not guaranteed to save you either. If it was a private company, then that would be different, but it’s a nonprofit organization.
I would do this so I can wake up in 200 years and listen to Despacito 2
So what happens if this company shuts down? or goes into liquidation? ;) What happens to the bodies?
Niall Scully they wake them up early
Hotsauceandsour Lover lol
Worth a shot I guess
dude c'mon they are genius enough to freeze people forever and they have no idea about going out on supplies...
Niall Scully What it the power was shut off?
I watched what happened to monday and they do these cryogenics thing where people get froze and sleep but it's a scam.
Yes... Cut, and preserve my head. In the future I want a cyborg body like "Ghost In The Shell".
same
What if you come back as a vegetable? Or your cyborg brain remembers your loved ones today but you’re stuck in a world you can no longer relate to? Just a whole bunch of super intelligent beings not understanding a word you ask?
The spooky thing is after 500 years technology still isnt possible but the company went bankrupt and nobody remembered it but one day appears on headline that "an archeologist dug out best preserved 500 year old human bodies" like we dig out mummies from pyramid. 💀
So what happens if you freezing back in to the Classic Age (instead of Future Age)
Mr. Moore knows what he’s talking about, he’s obviously from the future
Who's here from Shane lol
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Madster 987 lmao meeee 😂
Madster 987 me
@@delaneyrose1119 I am Laughing my ass off at your comment, LOL yes I am TOO here because of shane dawson, HAHAHAHA so FUNNY
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We gone all die one day..Lets just be ready for a beautiful deep sleep..N love life as long as we can💖
They never be back
Lost of their dam 💰
Pottan Kala I don’t think they have anything to lose after all they are dead/preserved
How will u know when they wake up
Jen Jen You won't!
Jen Jen Its in their hands..they have to be the ones to wake them manually. They can't wake up just like that.
Wow! Bravo, bravo
This is going to seriously mess up the earth if it works
Wait, if you freeze someone before they die and put them sleep, if you freeze them then, mitosis and cell division won't occur easy as there slower and froze, would that keep them alive longer!?
Too much futurama
אורן כהן that matrix is gods creation and once you die you move on
The last 20 seconds .. dangerous words
If you wanna get free from all the lies, change the way of interpretation of our world.
this works, like look at call of duty campaigns
bro hes joking
I would love to do this.
But, how and who decides to bring someone back?
And, can investments continue after we're dead, or are we broke when we wake up 1000 years from now?
+Peter Davila Good questions. Did you find the answers to these questions? I'm asking the same ones now, but 2 years later.
+mesof Not yet. But, I do hope this type of technology does offer a way for humanity to eventually cheat death. At least until biomedicine figures out how to keep our bodies young and healthy for hundreds of years. I remain hopeful that we will live long enough to live forever.
Peter Davila I think they should decide to bring them back as soon as they discover a way to do it. Edit: see you after 2 years 👋
Peter Davila you put money in you bank and ask for interest on it when you come back all that interest will leave you rich
@@hectorgarcia3220 You will be probably broke. The % of anual inflation is higher or equal compared to the % your money will grow in a bank.
Head down! Yup! That's the way I want to be preserved.
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2:42 His face just says it all, I would be freaked out too
there is a fundamental problem for this business is that they have a conflict of interest if they ever tries to revive people because once you do it means they are out of business. it means the tech would be advanced enough nobody would need to be preserved in the first place. that is why he says that revival is not guaranteed because he never wanted to do that in the first place. XD they do not want to be out of business, do they?
maxlol0 They can't go out of business. Once, they start reviving, they will start getting more clients and believers. There are millions of rich people and family who can afford this but are sceptical ..that would change if they are successful bringing the dead back.
I think that if people started being successfully revived then more people would sign up.
They're non profits and their trust funds do not pay their trustees, so there's no conflict of interest. If anything they want to actually go out of business.
Have you ever thought what would happen if everyone stopped dying? The world world be teeming with people and resources are limited!
FALLOUT 4
Wow this is blowing my mind
How's it monitored as far as making sure they stay frozen and the power doesn't go out? What happens if the power goes out?
I think I'd do this to myself in the future..
why not
Who’s here after Shane ?? 🙂
Wouldn’t it make more sense to have this facility in a cold climate
Amazing
Notice the filthy floors in the place, as well as wires hanging from ceiling....?
What are you talking about?🤣😂🤣
wait until Victor Frankenstein return to life.
I didnt know this place was here jn az, surprising considering daily its 118 outside
why do i have this feeling tht this is nothing but a new grand way to steal people's money
Dark Rose i mean it’s only like $200k.. and you’re dead so your money has no better use technically lol. You can pay for this, donate 30% of your money keep 70% Incase you’re ever back
Maybe they should've put us all into hypersleep until Covid 19 tied off.
When do they take those people out of the cryonics?
Muhammad M. Naseem when they have a cure to save them
Never.
Its probably good to keep the cells from the organs those might be important
the guy whom wrote the shown" mammas family" with Vick Lawrence head is frozen there
Project Lazarus
LOL
Yeah
But where is Walt Disney tho
LOL
Cremated. He was never cryopreserved.
I saw this in The 100 series.. lol Good show by the way
One huge flaw in this nonsense. Where does the soul go when the body is dead. Does it wait outside? Ready to re enter the body. There’s more mysteries to death which just can’t be explained
Lol the soul doesn't exist thats religious spiritual bull crap.
What soul?
If they frozen A Thousand Years that can use a time machine go back in see that Family from the Past if that technology exist
Demetrius White you are probably a kid so im just going to tell you that time travel to the past is not possible now nor will it be in the future.
theorically even ressurecting the death is not as hard as travelling in time
@NOVAPBSofficial
Can I ask you a question? When you freeze the human, he will die 'couse he can't breath. How do you wake It up later? How do you make It alove again?
This will never happen. PERIOD!!!!!
I wish they can read this ecclesiastic 9:5,6,10. John 5:28,29. John 11:11-15.
Imagine if someone wakes up and dies because of the cold 😂😂
They already died those people are retarded
Those are literally the ice cubes I have from bed bath and beyond that they use in their ice bath...
What's the monthly maintenance charge for their services
Real life Fallout vault Tec facility LOL
i want to try :)
That's cool, I'm from Brazil and there's a frozen Brazilian in cryonics.
I believe that people need a proper resting place. No one would really want grandma suspended upside down for years.
Who came here from fallout 4
nickreviewdude lol
Me
Me.. remember there are hidden messages in that game that actually relate to our reality of life..
Since time is relative, these people have probably already been resurected in the future. For them the centuries of waiting pass in seconds just like they do for us while we are asleep.
{ويسألونك عن الروح قل الروح من أمر ربي وما أوتيتم من العلم إلا قليلآ}
صدق الله العضيم
This seems scary.reminds me of the soap aurora in telemundo.wish them the best
I remember very recently reading about the tragic but true story of a 17 year old girl here in England that was dying of cancer - yet longed to live. And what 17 year old in such a situation would not long to live ? And whom would not do all they could to grant her wish ?
Her will was that she should be preserved by cryonics, in the event that she should soon die. The girl died.
The girl`s mother wished to honor her last wish whilst her father disagreed. The case was decided by The Judiciary, which ruled that the girl`s wish should be upheld. Thus the girl`s body is no kept by cryonics.
Alas, where is the girl ?
She is no more. I do not believe that Cryonics is a solution to that which cannot be avoided. Ie, whatever medical advances may emerge, that girl is dead. She no longer exists and even if cryonics can one day re-animate a corpse, it will not be that girl whom once was.
If I may, Rest in Peace, that girl.
But what if they do manage to reanimate her ? What`s the big difference between sleeping and being dead then ? Your consciousness shuts down for some time and then it`s back up again. The future will change our view like that
She was 14
I believe our consciousness leaves the body when we die I would certainly hope so as that would be torturous for a soul to be aware and spend that long in one of those tins...
But what happens if the company goes bankrupt? Who’s going to take care of your frozen body? 😂👏🏻
FONZI JURADO Doesn't work like that bud.
@@dawudidris9106
We'll see (or not). That company will go bankrupt, that's not a guess, but a fact. They only have one chance, they can hope humanity goes dumber and dumber, and this seems to happen. This is their only chance.
wim hof would LOVE this.
2:09 Walt Disney's photo on the wall, now that says a lot.🤔
Death is irreversible
Im think
I’m gonna cryogenically freeze myself to the year 3000
The journalist is looking at him like he's crazy
Didn't the Egyptians have some similar theory at play back in their times ? :P Very interesting thing...wonder if it will ever work :D
kikbawl They didn't have the technology we have though.
That was based on idiotic things like magic spells and rituals. We have science and objective research now.
This seems really sketchy
Tiaam Du Nord I know I’m late but they are a non profit organization
@@espakuz2450 they charge 220k for each "patient".. they profit out of the people's fear of dying
Ale Xandra from what I remember it used to be 12k up to 50k. Now it’s 220k?
@@espakuz2450 yeah...idk but I think if anyone has that much money to spear, I think it'll be wiser to spend them on reserch and finding a cure for illnesses
Ale Xandra sometimes money can’t save people, how much money has been put into cancer research and yet there has not been a cure well at least wide spread.
Interesting... Very interesting...
who would want to live forever in a cruel world?
How much.
You can fund it through life insurance for like 30-100 bucks a month. www.cryonics.org/resources/life-insurance
Am I the only one who thought that Cryonics are about Crayons?
Renzo Osuna yeah. Probably beacuse you're 9 years old
Yes, idiot.
I thought it was a different form of chronic hebrs.
After the interview, the dude be like , Guys they're gone , you can come out of the pods !!
i want to live in the year 2500 i want to see the future
What happened to leaving things to god something's just need to be left alone and death is one of them
Precious Sparkle not everyone believes in religion
@MrCaptain God is not to control, God is to judge.
Then you would be in the medieval era