Biothics: Cryogenics

[Resha]

If that has happened, then they won't get revived. Seeing as they're dead for the duration of cryo, I somehow doubt they'll care.

Where did you get your earlier global warming comment from, by the way...? We don't just jam them into the nearest ice sheet.

Then there's no point doing it, right? Waste of money, time and effort. It sounds impossible anyway.

Oh, I made that up! Just like everything else. I don't know anything about this, but it seems logical to think that ice could melt due to - if not global warming - other reasons, anyways. I realise that the temperatures will be monitered et al. But see above for that.

I just don't see the point of doing all of this when there's no guarantee that it will work.

[RPJesus]

Who says they're actually dead? Just because they're beyond our ability to revive now doesn't mean they'd be beyond our medical capabilities in 100 years or more. It's not playing god, it's science, and if we one day have the ability, then why not? It's not getting into any sketchy ethical territory, it's simply someone wanting the chance to live a little longer. If they've got the money and the technology is there, let them go ahead and try.

Because one day we may be able to revive them doesn't change the fact that they're dead. They're dead, they're dead.

I don't think there's anything wrong with it because it's unlikely (I mean that unliklyness doesn't make it suck). I suppose it's worth working on because, as the Quartermaster said, it's expanding our knowledge (though, to be honest, there are way more important things).

It's a bit of a tricky subject. What's wrong with bringing the dead back, if we can do it? But perhaps it'll make people even stupider. We'll have even less respect for life and we might be pretty careless, thinking that our actions don't really matter (of course, that would be stupid people. If they die of a horrible accident they may be brought back, but they'll have to pay the huge expensed and probably be crippled for life).

It being so expensive would probably come back to the same thing (thta stuff does)- murdering starving foreigners to get cash to cling on to your own life. People are selfish enough already, do we need that? But I guess you can't say for sure that it will be so bad. People abuse everything anyway, and it's unfair to blame that on the scientists.