Storing dead people at -196°C

I realise that I said "freezing" in the introduction, and then get corrected later on in the video. I didn't notice until I got to the edit, so it had to stay in!

But when I freeze a dead body in my fridge, I go to jail. This isn't fair

the idea of a trust fund for your own dead corpse where generations of people will work to preserve it is very pharaoh-like

Imagine someone who was once inside that freezer watching this video after 500 years.

This is the epitome of "So you're telling me there's a chance."

I like that the CEO specifies that it's a research procedure, not a medical procedure.

Never thought we'd see a home freezer tour from Tom but here we are.

wastelander in year 2504: “hey boss look! The boys and I found a bunch of preserved bodies frozen in some tube, gonna be eating good tonight!”

I'd feel weird waking up knowing that my family and friends of today could potentially have been dead for hundreds of years. On the other hand this would allow me to know what happened to them as oppose to not knowing at all if there's no afterlife.

Imagine being one major recession away from getting thrown out like a freezer burnt chicken.

As a person who has never been frozen at -196°C, I agree.

Imagine waking up in 500 years and dying again 2 days later because you still have cancer...

"Ok, one more video before bed" The video:

Tom straight up showed us where he hid the bodies and expected us not to notice

Tom is really trying to make the most existential crisis inducing videos before he takes his break.

“People chasing money and losing their health, and using their money to chase health; Preparing for a future they will never see and forgetting the present, and Living like they’ll never die, and dying like they never lived.”

I live in Germany and had the experience of going to the exhibition and programme "UN_ENDLICH" (IN_FINITE) from the Humboldt Forum. It was all about death and how we live with it. You got to see a very wide variety of perspectives, be it religious or scientific, and this cryonics company was part of it. Insanely interesting stuff.

Tom in a thousand years: This is the pod where I was frozen and now I'm going to be a delivery boy.

Benjamin Franklin is known to have written a letter in 1773 to Jacques Dubourg, a French physicist and a fellow inventor, in which he muses on the concept of being preserved. Here is the relevant passage from that letter: "I wish it were possible... to invent a method of embalming drowned persons, in such a manner that they might be recalled to life at any period, however distant; for having a very ardent desire to see and observe the state of America a hundred years hence, I should prefer to an ordinary death, being immersed with a few friends in a cask of Madeira, until that time, then to be recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country! But... in all probability, we live in a century too little advanced, and too near the infancy of science, to see such an art brought in our time to its perfection."

It's hard to avoid the philosophical questions about this, and ironically as I am now approaching 50 I am much more at peace with my mortality than I was in my 20s, but I think regardless of whether or not you think cryogenics is philosophically or ethically correct, or reanimation will ever be scientifically possible, the biggest flaw with this whole thing is: you're not frozen until you are old or extremely ill or both. Future science may be able to bring you back to life and "cure" your disease, but it will never make you younger, and most serious diseases, I imagine, would leave lasting damage even if they're cured. Plus… you're now in a distant and unfamiliar future and everyone you've ever known is long-since dead.