Cryopreservation is the concept of freezing humans as soon as they die, with the hope of reviving them using future medicine.
  • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
    123·
    9 days ago

    I can’t imagine what she must be going through. It’s a horrible and traumatic loss.

    But the people selling her on the idea thay such a thing will ever be possible are ghoulishly preying on a grieving mom. Her son is gone and will never be alive again. There’s no amount of money that can change that.

    • slartibartfast@lemm.ee
      541·
      9 days ago

      “100% sure — we’re not certain. No guarantees. But there’s a reasonable probability,” Peter Tsolakides of Southern Cryonics told 7News.

      Weasley language.

    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
      44·
      9 days ago

      Even in the most generous scenarios, cryopreservation of a person has to be done quickly, lest the brain decay.

      Current methods cannot achieve it to begin with. Let alone once the person has been dead for days.

      • z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml
        9·
        9 days ago

        This. Even if cloning humans were legal, and she wanted to clone him, or freeze his deceased body to clone him in the future, she’d only have a few hours before his DNA was no longer viable for cloning.

        This is just sad on so many levels.