Hmmm. This definitely got you thinking this week.
What is cryonics?
How much does it cost?
Is cryonics just some science-fiction fantasy?
Has any mammal successfully been frozen and brought back to life?
Was Walt Disney really cryogenically preserved?
So I was correct about Ted Williams head being frozen, but I was wrong about the rest of his body?
What other famous people have been frozen?
Will cryonics work?
Are bodies frozen while they are still alive or after they have died?
What is neurocryopreservation?
What does this have to do with the Barefoot Bandit?
http://www.alcor.org/
http://www.cryonics.org/
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ted-williams-frozen-in-two-pieces/
Cryonics is the idea of freezing one's dead body to preserve it. Scientist believe if you preserve the body correctly, you will be able to bring the person back in the future when their is a technology that can make the person fully healthy. After Ted Williams dead his body was frozen in two separate areas, his head in one and body in another. Could they bring him back to life in the future? Does this mean people may be able to live forever? Also a young girl named Matheryn Naovaratpong was the youngest to be frozen. Her parents hope that she will be able to be saved in the future. I think there is more of a chance with this working in a young child than an adult because the young child's cells have not really been used or damaged as much. Also the young child's body has not grown or anything yet and children are able to come back from sicknesses faster and better than adults so they may be able to be revived from being frozen. The whole idea of being frozen to preserve the body is crazy but cool. If this works what will this mean for the future in medicine?
ReplyDeleteI agree that it would be more smart to do it with children because they aren't as damaged, But I also feel that since their brains are not as developed it might cause problems.
DeleteI agree with you that it might work better on children than adults
DeleteI read the article about Ted Williams. He was decapitated and stored in liquid nitrogen with missing DNA samples. After he died he was flown to Scottsdale, Arizona for the procedure. His children approved it, and it costed them $136,000. They still owe $111,000. However, his eldest daughter fought her siblings, saying that he wanted to be cremated. 8 of the 182 DNA samples are missing. This is why you should write down what you want after death.
ReplyDeleteI disagree with being preserved. People are putting a lot of money into something they may never happen.
DeleteYeah, I guess it would be easier to prepare oneself beforehand in how they want to be handled before death.
DeleteI agree that we should write down, and decide what we want to do with our bodies before our deaths.
DeleteAfter reading the article, I was able to learn about cryonics and how unique this procedure is. Cryonics is an experimental procedure that preserves a human being using the best technology. Cryobiology is a recognized specialty that banks transplantable organs at low temperatures. The article demonstrates how Alcor applies breakthroughs in organ banking research to reduce the chance of encountering cryopreservation injury. This will make it easier for future medical technology to revice patients from the dead. This process is very demanding and can have a very remarkable outcome by bringing people back from the dead by freezing parts of their bodies.
ReplyDeleteCryogenics is really cool (no pun intended), and it's weird to know that we can do this and it works. Great job!
DeleteI also think cryonics is interesting to learn about and will be more advanced in the future.
DeleteI watched the video and some of the thing that they talked about i all ready knew but they did go into more detail. For example i did not know that that had to give the brain air to restore life to it then freeze them. Also i thought that they just put them into the chambers but they put then into sleeping bag like things so that the liquid nitrogen would would not damage the skin. I feel that there is a possibility that the medicine could possibly become advanced enough to revive a person but it could be very controversial.
ReplyDeleteCryonics is a technique that is suppose to save lives and extend the lifespan of people. You cool people to a liquid nitrogen temperature so that physical decaying stops. As soon as someone is legally dead, they are placed in an ice bath. The Alcor team restores respiration and makes sure oxygen continues to flow to the brain until the body is cryo-preserved. I disagree with this whole idea because people were meant to die, otherwise we’d be overpopulated. People haven’t even been revived yet. The furthest their research has gone was replacing blood in dogs and monkeys and reviving a worm.
ReplyDeleteI also disagree with preserving and freezing your body because our country would be overpopulated and you are not always garunteed that this procedure will even work.
DeleteI also disagree because as humans, we are meant to die
DeleteI also disagree that this is a good idea. Humans are born, then meant to die.
DeleteBased on all these sources, cryonics is the idea that if you freeze one's body in current time then many years in the future it can be resuscitated. The whole philosophy behind cryonics is that hopefully in next years science will develop to the point where humans can be brought back to life with the same personality and brain function. It is surprising to me that over 100 people so far have been frozen through the Alcor company. However I found it kinda creepy that there are tons of people's heads or bodies sitting in frozen containers in their company headquarters. While I personally would not have myself cryonically preserved, it is very interesting to learn about the science of what many companies are doing. I hope one day in the future someone can figure out how to unfreeze the bodies and be able to restore brain function and personality, yet I wonder how those people would feel waking up to a whole new society with no one familiar to them. Ultimately I found these articles very interesting and would be intrigued to see what happens in the future.
ReplyDeleteI also find it creepy that people froze parts of their bodies and they are sitting in their work headquarters.
DeleteCryonics is the scientific process in which scientists freeze deceased bodies in hope they can later revive them. After reading the article about Matheryn Naovaratpong, her parents decided to send her brain to Arizona where it will be kept frozen. They stored some of her cells frozen sitting by her cart. As soon as her parents find out about the cancer she had, they decided to use her scientifically for new research. Matheryn’s personality and thought could be stored and reserved for later on in her life. I do wonder since her cancer was in her brain, wouldn’t the cancer cells stay there till they revive her later on?
ReplyDeleteHere’s another article about cryonics: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/us/cancer-immortality-cryogenics.html?_r=0
I read the article “Ted Williams Frozen In Two Pieces” in which it details about Ted’s head being preserved in liquid nitrogen. This is what you called cryonics, freezing bodies/body parts. Usually an occasion when people get freezed is when they possess an incurable disease in which the conservation could be used in the future upon finding a cure. It is very expensive as it is said by the Williams family that it costed them $136,000 . However, it appears to me that it is not the best way to handle the passed away since it is said that it had been accidently cracked ten times. I don’t think it is very stable and not worth it despite being somewhat cool.
ReplyDeleteI was also surprised at how much this can cost a person, and this is not worth doing because of the price and uncertainty.
DeleteI agree. It is too risky and expensive. I've read articles in the past saying that it can be difficult to keep some of the earlier frozen bodies preserved because of older methods. What if today's methods still aren't perfect and all those people payed all that money for nothing?
DeleteI read the article about Ted Williams getting his head preserved into liquid nitrogen. This is what they do if they have a incurable disease and they want to do more research to find a cure. This is not a cheap task. It cost the Williams family 136000 dollars which I believe is not worth it. Their are many other ways to find a cure and I don't think this is one of them.
ReplyDeleteI like your responses on cryogenics. I think this would be cool to have done to me.
DeleteI would rather just die.
DeleteI read the article http://www.alcor.org/AboutCryonics/index.html
ReplyDeleteBefore I even started reading I started thinking about it from the questions that were posted and was kind of confused on how this could work. While I was reading I found out that it works from these three facts: Life can be stopped and restarted if its basic structure is well preserved. Vitrification (not freezing) can preserve biological structure very well. Methods for repairing structure at the molecular level can now be foreseen. For the first fact I found out that human embryos are and can be preserved for years. Also that adult humans can survive after their heart, or brain was stopped due to the temperatures. For the second fact I read that you can add a high concentration of a certain chemical (cryoprotectants) which can cool tissue and cause no ice formation. This makes it possible to freeze large organs like the brain. For the third fact I found that the new sciences formed for this can soon make it possible for them to repair and restart the brain so it will work and keep everything in tact. Overall I think this is a really cool idea but also really scary to think about because of how many things could come out of this and bringing things back to life after so long.
Cryonics is the science of freezing people’s dead bodies, or body parts, with the hope of bringing them back to life in the future. Alcor, the company who provides the international service of freezing people, is quoted as saying that this is an experiment that has the possibility of becoming a reality in the future. But, they make no promises as nobody has the knowledge of the future’s scientific capabilities. I read the article about the little girl who died of cancer and is the youngest cryonaut so far. It is tragic when anyone dies, let alone a little kid who hasn’t truly gotten to explore the world yet. Her parents used the science of cryonics to preserve her brain with the hope that she will someday be able to live again. It is a wonderful idea of being able to give people another chance at life who really had no other option for life although it is just a little bit on the creepy side. Personally, I wouldn’t ever be looking into it for my own use or the use of my family. I am okay with living a long, healthy (hopefully) life and then seeing what happens next.
ReplyDeleteCryonics is the process in which scientist freeze deceased bodies in hopes to later revive the person. The purpose of cryonics is that hopefully scientists can bring the deceased back to life. In my opinion, it’s hard to believe that this could actually be possible. Personally, I disagree with this idea because as humans, everyone is meant to die and that’s just they way it’s meant to be. I also believe that it’s foolish to spend so much money on something that is not certain to work.
ReplyDeleteCryogenics is when a body that has recently died is frozen in liquid nitrogen temperatures, this preserves the body forever. I think it’s pretty cool that we can almost stop or delay death by knowing when the science is born we can bring people back to life. I don’t want to die and this seems really interesting to me and has a lot of pros. However, cryogenics also has many cons. The world is already over populated and if no one ever dies, we will run out of resources. I also believe that there is no life without death and I would want to be at peace when I die. Imagine how weird it would be to suddenly wake up hundreds, thousands, millions, or even billions of years later to a new world, honestly cryogenics seems like an interesting scifi horror story.
ReplyDeleteCryonics is the scientific process which scientists freeze dead or deceased people and hope later in the the future to revive them. It is very important to being the process as soon as a death occurs so you can preserve the living cells for later.I don't think this is the best way to handle a death because if they had cancer or some some illness, wouldn't those cells be living inside them and be there when they are revived? Its quite a process that I don't think is the best.
ReplyDeleteI read the BBC article on Eniz, the youngest person to be put though cryogenic freezing. I learned that the process as outlined by Alcor involves preserving the patient until future technology is advanced enough to save them. In order to keep the person alive they are put on cyroprotectants to cool their body to -120c and then stored in an even cooler -196c. I personally think this process is beneficial to preserving those who want to make the most of their life, but I personally would not be cyrogenically froze.
ReplyDeleteI read the same article as you did Josh. It would be really beneficial in restoring people to life, especially if they were really important or influential. Why wouldn't you want to be cryogenically frozen though?
DeleteThat's crazy how low the temperatures go to freeze their bodies.
DeleteCryogenesis is when you are frozen in liquid nitrogen in hopes that one day you will be able to be brought back to life. Ted Williams a baseball star is cryogenically frozen weather he wanted to be or not. He was decapitated and his head is in a steel can and is body is in a steel tank. I think cryogenics is cool, but I think that when you die you should stay dead, but i guess it depends on how you die. Like is you die of an injury that's okay but if you die of old age i’d say no. there has to be a limit to life cause if you lived forever what's the point.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you're saying, some people should just stay dead. Also, with the world over populating and all, I doubt that one thing we really need right now is more humans to populate and polute the earth.
DeleteAlthough I don't agree with Cryogenics, I think it should be the person who died's decision
DeleteI agree that those with medical conditions should be cryogeniczied but I see immortality to be a thing.
DeleteI read the article on Ted Williams and his head being preserved in liquid nitrogen. Basically cryogenics is preserving dead bodies so in the future they could come back alive. With Ted Williams story it cost the family 136,000 dollars. I would not want to pay this unless I was super rich. Cryogenics in most cases is used when a person had an incurable disease and maybe in the future could be cured. I would love to do this if the money was there.
ReplyDeleteI agree if you have the money, why not?
DeleteI agree if they came up with a cure and I was still preserved I would want them to try and bring me back.
DeleteSo is it only for the rich or do the lower class people have a chance at this too?
DeleteAccording to Alcor, cryonics is the preservation of a person’s body to hopefully save his/ her life. They believe that in a few years, they will be able to bring someone back to life if they reach and intervene in humans’ death process. I have heard about this before, but only in movies. I didn't know it was a real thing that scientists were actually trying to create and improve. To start this process, the newly deceased person is stabilized so that the brain can receive blood and oxygen to preserve minimal function. Then it is injected with Heparin (to protect from blood clotting), drained of water, frozen, then placed in a container upside down. I’m still stuck between thinking this is a useless experiment, and a scientific revolution. When baseball player Ted Williams died, he was decapitated and his head was then frozen. He is still frozen and has 8 of his 182 DNA samples are missing. Overall, his whole process costed $136,000! That’s kind of pricey for a scientific experiment that hasn't even been proven to work yet. In conclusion, cryonics is something that is very new to me and most of the scientific world. Although it is chancy now, I feel that it will help with new medical advancements in the later future.
ReplyDeleteI read the article about the Thai girl that was the youngest person to ever be cryogenically frozen. I learned that when cryogenically freezing someone, you don't have to freeze their whole body, but can get away with just freezing the brain. While I am not too sure on how that would work, I think that is an interesting way of preserving someone to later be revived. I wonder though, how they plan on reviving the people, if it is their body or just their brain, I can't think of how that would work, but interesting nonetheless. I question how they're are also trying to find ways to revive the people, and how they plan on that working in the near to late future.
ReplyDeleteI read the BBC article about the two year old that was cryogenically frozen after she dies of brain cancer. I learned a lot about the cryogenic process, and how those who have people frozen hope that they can be revived later when technology is better. I found it really interesting how technology played a huge part in the little girl’s life, from birth to death. The idea of preserving people is cool and a good idea, but I believe that cryogenics might have gone a little too far. The first reason is that the entire process rests on predictions on the future. If it turns out that life really can’t be restored, then a lot of money and resources would have been wasted. Also, death has been something that has always been permanent, and isn’t something that we should mess with even if it was possible. However, it is the family’s decision, and it is their right to do what they want with their loved ones.
ReplyDeleteI found the idea of cryogenics very interesting. In the video it talked about how they preserved the body. They gave it an ice bath and feed it oxygen so it can go to the brain. The idea of freezing people is not just to preserve their bodies. It's for the bigger idea of bringing them back to life which is a very likely possibility. All that needs to happen is the correct technology and for the cryogenics to work. If those two things fall in place then people could live on to be very old.
ReplyDeleteThough bringing people back to life would be very interesting, I disagree with you entirely. Though modern day science can produce artifical organs, the human body is so complex that I doubt you can recreate an new body for the head, or to make possibly hundred year old blood pumping through a body again. There is also the question of how long it will take for the technology to become available, and if there is a time limit on how long a body can be preserved. And if the technology was available, would the scientists keep their word, or find you valuable enough to be revived with this probably expensive future medicine?
DeleteI watched the video that took place in Alcor. This seems like a very interesting process and I would even like to read more. I am also very surprised that it only costs around 200,000 for a full body freezing, I thought it would be in the millions. I didn't realize that this was such a complex procedure either. I thought it just consisted of you being frozen in liquid nitrogen than being stored their for a few decades. I was a little disappointed to see they weren't in glass cases either, I always put cryogenics and big glass tubes together.
ReplyDeleteCryogenics is a procedure that keeps hope for a dead body to come back to life once they have the technology to fix the disease they died from. Once a person is dead, they put the body in an ice bath and then get cooled to liquid nitrogen level so decaying stops. I don't think this is a good idea, because first off, you could either buy a house with that money, or your college tution. Even if you have the money, they may never find a cure for your disease, and then you're just a dead person in an ice cube. Sure, it may work for Captin America, but that movie's made by Marvel, the same company that made a superhero that controls ants. If they ever do have the technology to save you, the Earth my be over populated and the economy is crumbling away... Do you really want to live in a world like that?
ReplyDeleteI read the Ted Williams article and learned that his head was preserved. Cyrogenics is the preserving of a body so it will come back to life in the future. I wouldn't want to do this because it is unnatural and seems just weird. Even if I had the money I still wouldn't do it.
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DeleteI agree that this process if very unnatural
DeleteI read the article about Ted Williams. He was decapitated and stored in liquid nitrogen with missing DNA samples.He was flown to Scottsdale, Arizona for the procedure. It costed his children about $136,000. They still owe $111,000. However, his eldest daughter fought her siblings, saying that he wanted to be cremated. 8 of the 182 DNA samples are missing. This is why you should write down what you want after death.
ReplyDeleteI think it is interesting how Ted's daughter fought over either a fire death or ice.
DeleteI read the article on Ted Williams and his head being preserved in liquid nitrogen. This means that his head was frozen for preservation. Cryogenics is preserving dead bodies so that in the future when technology has developed, they could come back to life. It cost Ted Williams’ family 136,000 dollars to undergo this procedure. I would not pay this much money for cryogenics; however, if I was super rich and had the money available then I would.
ReplyDeleteI agree that if I become rich I would preserve my body, and yeah that is a crazy amount of money.
DeleteCryogenics is when you freeze someones body so that one day you can bring them back to life when they find a way to cure their disease. The weird thing is that they dont just freeze the whole body they can just freeze your head. I thought this was a big shock. You know its happening but you then read about it and realise that its really happening. You see all the pictures and its kinda crazy to see and think about how this field of medicine could make someone live for thousands of years. I think its really cool and really intresting that people choose to do this with their body's.
ReplyDeleteI watched the video about cryogenics, Cryogenics is the preservation of people in freezing cold temps. The process begins once a person is considered legally dead, they are placed into an ice bath then given oxygen to make sure that there is oxygen going to the brain until the body is cryo-preserved. If someone wants to do this they can either do their entire body or only their head like baseball player Ted Williams. Although cryogenics is an interesting thing, I don't feel like I would want to do that when i die.
ReplyDeletecryogenics reminds me of batman when Mr.Freeze's wife is placed to save her from a deadly condition.If when do this in life we can save hunderds of lives.Also I see it interesting that it can be the key to immortality.I personally would do cryogenics to preserve me.Its just like being fossilized.
ReplyDeleteCryogenics is the preservation of the brain and parts of the body after death for the possibility of regeneration. The people who are working with cryogenics believe that freezing the brain will preserve it in the state that it is in. They also work to protect the organs by freezing them and adding water and chemicals into the cells to prevent them from forming ice. By doing these steps, the scientists believe that in the future these people who have been preserved will so be able to be brought back to life.
ReplyDeleteI read the article about the youngest person to ever be cryogenically frozen. I read that when cryogenically freezing someone, you don't have to freeze their whole body but have the option to just freezing the brain. I'm not sure on how that would work but I believe that is an interesting way of preserving someone to later be revived. When I hear revived, I think of how zombies die just to come back back to life. So how would these people be classified.. still human? I still wonder how they plan on reviving the people. If it's their body or just their brain, I can't even imagine how that would work, but the process is still interesting. I wonder how they're are also trying to find ways to revive the people, and how they plan on that working in the near to late future. One factor I also wonder about is how they plan to keep people frozen with global warming happening today...
ReplyDeleteWhen I think of cryogenics I immediately think of the theory about Walt Disney's head being frozen so he could continue to spreed "Disney magic" for years and years after his death. But before thinking of Disney my first thought is of Austin Powers and how his entire body was frozen for years so he could be defrosted and fight Dr.Evil. Personally I would never want to be cryogenically frozen because everything would change around you. You would be an outcast and not know how the world has changed. I think it would be terrifying, but if someone I knew wanted to be frozen then I wouldn't try to stop them but I don't think I'd support them either. I think it's wrong and you should just live in your present.
ReplyDeleteCryogenics is the preservation of a recently deceased person in hopes of halting the decaying of the body and allowing future physicians to repair the body. People who believe in cryogenics believe that the cryogenics will perfectly preserve your body and brain. Personally I don't believe in this right now. It just seems wrong and weird. I do find it all interesting seeing people like Ted Williams being frozen and other things. It would be interesting to see if this would actually work.
ReplyDeleteWould you freeze yourself? Do you think morally there is anything wrong with this?
DeleteI don't think that cryogenics will work because of the fact that once the body is flash frozen you would have to keep the body at absolute zero so that the cells fitness age and then there is the problem of thawing the person out, when thawing the person the ice in their blood would leave residual water which is deadly.
ReplyDeleteI agree, I don't know if it is even possible. I think that it costs 200,000 dollars just so the people doing it can get rich.
DeleteCryonics, the idea of freezing someones dead body to preserve it. Scientist believe, if you freeze one's dead body, future physicians will be able to bring them back. People believe that freezing a body will perfectly preserve their body and brain. Personal I don't believe in this, and that it is a good idea. But I do think its cool has our scientist have been able to find a way to preserve something and bring it back after being frozen. It just shows how far we have come, and gives us faith in where we can go in the future.
ReplyDeleteCryogenics is when ice is used to preserve a once living person in hope of one day bringing them back to life. From watching the video, I learned that it costs 200,000 dollars to get your body preserved,and it is alot more involved process than it seems. Usually when I picture cryogenics I picture a full body sitting in a block of ice, but it is not exactly like that. If I become rich one day and believe in the possible revival of someone, I might consider preserving my body.
ReplyDeleteCryogenics is a process in which a person's body (or their head) is preserved in liquid nitrogen. I watched the video and came to the realization that this is just a giant gabble, in which the odds are not in your favor. It costs a lot of money to preserve your body, and you are giving your money which could be used for your children to some scientists who can;t even guarantee that it will work. And if the machine was available to people in the future, would those people stick to their words? I have a feeling that those scientists would much rather just keep their $200,000 and buy themselves a new car or two
ReplyDeleteCryogenics is when a person is frozen, so that they can be thawed out later. it costs around 1/5 of a million dollars to get frozen. What I don't get is if they freeze a dead person how are they going to revive them? And if being revived after you die is possible, why wouldn't you just get revived on the spot?
ReplyDeleteI read the article on Ted Williams head being preserved using cryonics.Meaning that his head was preserved using liquid nitrogen to preserve his brain.This technique is used to preserve dead bodies so possibly in the future if they have the technology they can bring them back to life. However this method is very expensive and not available to most people.I wouldn't want to do this because everyone was meant to die when they die
ReplyDeleteI agree that people are meant to die, and are not really meant to live beyond a certain point
Deletecryogenics is when a persons body or head is preserved in liquid nitrogen right after they are legally dead. When you do this you are hopefully being preserved so you can be revived later in life. i think this is really cool but really strange at the same time. I don't see the point because who knows for sure that science will ever be able to do that.They could just be running a huge scam.
ReplyDeleteCryonics is the idea of freezing one's dead body to preserve it for a longer period of time. There is a theory stating that if you preserve a body long enough, there will eventually be enough technology to bring that person back to life. Ted Williams’ dead his body was frozen in two separate places, his head in one place while his body was in another. A young girl by the name of Matheryn Naovaratpong was the youngest to be frozen. Her parents hope that she will be able to be saved in the future...the wish of every loved one. I personally do not think this will work because I saw a life saving experiment where they could only freeze the person for a short period of time. Also the young child's body has The whole idea of being frozen to preserve the body is crazy but cool. If this works what will this mean for the future in medicine?
ReplyDeleteI learned how cryogenics is a process that will freeze and preserve your body from decaying. The process is so exact that it freeze your DNA without damaging it(if done correctly). Although it is not commonly available because of its slightly high price, 100,000 to 200,000 American dollars. And even though the technology may seem pretty cool, I would have moral issues of freezing myself for the future, this being my own opinion. But many rich and or famous people have chosen to have this process down to them. One of these people being Ted Williams, but he only preserved his head. I found this ridiculous also, if you were to go through the cryogenics process, why just have your head? But overall, I think it is a very cool concept that I wouldn't be surprised will be proven to work within the next century. But it would not be for me.
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