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RegularJoe@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 21 days ago

Australian actor starts fundraiser to cryogenically preserve son, who died by suicide after bullying

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Australian actor starts fundraiser to cryogenically preserve son, who died by suicide after bullying

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RegularJoe@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 21 days ago
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Cryopreservation is the concept of freezing humans as soon as they die, with the hope of reviving them using future medicine.
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  • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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    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.

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

      Weasley language.

      • BigChungus@lemmy.world
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        Ron, Fred and George would never do something like this

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          Percy though…

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      I agree. Instead of freezing him, she should donate it to an anti bullying charity.

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        Anti bullying charity? How’s that work?

        • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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          Use a corpse to scare bullies obviously

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    As far as I know, everyone who has been cryogenically frozen and thawed out has had to have their soup-ified remains be scraped out of the vat into a barrel. I cannot imagine voluntarily paying to sign my child up for that fate.

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    So she’s raising the money now. How long will his body be decomposing before she can pay to have it frozen?

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      As I write this, she’s at 3% of her goal

      $10,095 AUD raised

      $300K goal·210 donations

      Created 3 d ago

      source: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-preserve-my-son-after-bullying-tragedy

      At the current trend of 1% per day, that’s about 97 more days to go…

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    Sadly she will have to learn to let him go.

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    If it worked it would be a dick move

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    I remember watching a youtube video about a company that does this. You pay em, sign a contract, and when you die the freeze your body with the idea that one day science will be able to bring them back. I think its dumb af but why not. You won’t need the cash when you’re dead

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