Lab notes: will you be cryogenically freezing yourself?
If I said you had a beautiful body, would you ... freeze it after death and hope to be reanimated in the future? And does it really offer a chance to return from the dead? If you're keen to try it, it might be worth considering that experts have raised the alarm over the declining effect of last-line antibiotics - you might be looking at a rather shorter second life than you'd hoped for. Still, a gene-editing breakthrough that has allowed scientists to restore sight to blind animals could in future be used to combat a range of devastating genetic diseases, so perhaps it's worth a punt? Given that researchers have discovered that they can tell a frightening amount about you just from chemical traces on your mobile phone, maybe even cryogenics and reanimation will look old hat in a couple of years - will regeneration be possible one day? I'm privately hoping that when they wake me up in a thousand years, my first holiday will involve a dip in Pluto's vast ocean. I reckon it'd be bracing enough to really blow those cobwebs away.
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