Would you want to be cryonically frozen?

[Perdita]

Simon Cowell has revealed that he wants to be cryonically frozen so that he can return to life in the future.

The media mogul was speaking to guests at a private dinner hosted by Prime Minister Gordon Brown when he disclosed that he would be doing the UK an "invaluable service", says the Daily Mail.

He said: "I have decided to freeze myself when I die. You know, cryonics. You pay a lot of money and you get stuck in a deep freeze once you've been declared dead.

"Medical science is bound to work out a way of bringing us back to life in the next century or so, and I want to be available when they do. I would be doing the nation an invaluable service."

The PM replied that he would be a less popular candidate for a second coming, adding: "In fact, there may be a public campaign to stop me being frozen!"

Any of you that would like to go down that road?

[Abigail]

Nope, wouldn't want to come back to life to find all my family and friends that I once knew were dead. The world would probably be a worse place to live and everything would be strange. Somebody else would probably be living in my home and I'd still be the age I was when I died.

[Rawnie]

I don't know. If somebody else, like a friend, wanted to be frozen too, then I might consider it.. I was thinking about this yesterday. I don't want to die, but I don't want to live forever if I'm old and I can't look after myself.. Whether or not I'd like to wake up, alone, and in a completely different place and time, or just die like everyone else, is a hard question. If I'm going off of the fact that I don't want to die, I'll pick being frozen... I'm not sure though.

[Abigail]

It's very expensive to be frozen, you're talking hundreds of thousands of quid. I researched it once (for my A levels) and it's not something I'd enter into really.

This company in America do cryogenic freezing.

[Rawnie]

Yeah, I know. I mean, I would never do it.. The idea is comforting is some weird way though.

[StarsOfCCTV]

I wouldn't invest loads of money in an unproven technology. How can you wake someone up from being frozen? Its like taking the chicken out of the freezer and expecting it to start walking.

[Abigail]

Except the chicken had it's head and legs cut off, blood drained and organs removed

But I see your point

[di marco]

i dont think id want it done. it might be hundreds of years in the future and not only would everyone else you know be dead but you wouldnt have a clue how to live as times would have drastically changed. although it might seem like a nice idea to be able to live again, i think it would be horrible to not know what anything is or what life is like, i think it would be pretty scary! having said that, i can sort of see how some people might want it done, especially if they die at a young age due to cancer or something

[Chris_2k11]

I do not believe that this would even work, it seems fantasy like.

[Abigail]

It does work. Cryonics isn't freezing, it's vitrifying. Vitrification is an ice-free process in which more than 60% of the water inside cells is replaced with protective chemicals. This completely prevents freezing during deep cooling.

Blood vessels and whole kidneys have been reversibly vitrified, so it is theoretically possible that whole bodies can be reversibly vitrified. Whether this has been done on humans, I don't know.