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  • In short: A cryonics company has frozen its first client in Australia in the hope of bringing him back to life in the future.
  • The client, a man in his 80s, died in Sydney before being frozen at minus 200 degrees Celsius at a Holbrook facility.
  • What's next? The cryonics facility is expecting higher demand as its membership base ages, although it's still unknown whether anyone preserved this way can ever be revived.
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[–] quicklime@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If I shared the same insane and impotent obsession with the future, I would pay more to be turned into a fossil, all my cells replaced with minerals. Much more durable and the same zero chance of ever living again.

[–] zcd@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Sign me up for mineralization, infinitely cooler than being freezer-burned nasty soup

[–] fiat_lux@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Good news, everybody! Turning your cremation ashes into diamonds is pretty close to being mineralized? https://www.lonite.com/cremation-diamonds-from-ashes they claim close to 99.99% ash carbon, but who knows.

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