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A 2-Year-Old Has Become the Youngest Person Ever To Be Cryonically Frozen
merbs writes: After losing a long battle with brain cancer, 2-year-old Matheryn Naovaratpong became the first minor ever to be cryogenically frozen. This article is the story of how a Thai girl was frozen in Bangkok and shipped to Arizona to have her brain preserved in liquid nitrogen, while medical science works on a cure. "Typically we’d move the head from the trunk of the body. We didn't know what their reaction would be from the family, the mortuary, from border officials; this has to go through a number of shipping venues, customs, the TSA and so on. To see a frozen head in a box might have raised a number of red flags. In the U.S. that’s not a big deal, but there, they may not be accustomed."
Here in the US people ship frozen heads around all the time.
After curing the cancer in 25 years, and tthen 275 years later when we figure out how to reanimate frozen brain cells, this kid's going to be like, "What do you mean I'm an orphan?"
Whats in the box!!!! - Brad Pitt from Seven
These kids today, with the frozen heads and the music ...
I bought this house and you know I'm boss
Ain't no h'aint gonna run me off
it's probably pretty common in southern border towns.
Yep, even the headline is horribly inaccurate, it should be "A 2-Year-Old Has Become the Youngest corpse Ever To Be Cryonically Frozen". If she wasn't dead going in, she most definitely is now. And about as thoroughly dead as it's possible to be short of cremation. The cells have all ruptured, the person has left the building.
The people selling cryonic preservation should be ashamed of themselves, especially in this case - they can't even stop decomposition, just slow it down. MAYBE eventually we'll master the technology to scan a brain and extract the memories, personality, etc. and install them in a computer or new brain capable of restoring stream-of-consciousness. In which case IF there's enough of someone's brain-sicle left to provide the necessary information, and IF the person potentially has something to offer worth the cost of "resurrection", MAYBE some of those frozen heads will get a mind-clone made of them. Assuming of course the company doesn't just chuck all the heads in the composter after the family stops paying attention.
But a two year old girl who already lost half her brain tissue to attempts to remove the tumor? What possible benefit to anyone would there be in creating a mind-clone of that?
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