Lab to freeze humans planned in Boca Raton

Now South Florida will be haven to multiple generations of retired people?????

Ready or not, the practice of fast-freezing the dead for future ''reanimation'' is coming to South Florida.

A company called Suspended Animation, which already has an office in an industrial district of Boca Raton, hopes to build a cryonics lab before the end of the year. It would be the fourth such lab in the country.

The unproven science of cryonics reaped a whirlwind of publicity, much of it scathingly critical, after it was revealed that the son of Ted Williams had contracted to have his body and head stored in separate liquid nitrogen containers at Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Ariz.

In addition to experimentation on rats and other animals, Suspended Animation plans to sign up clients locally, freeze their bodies in Boca Raton, then ship them to Alcor for long-term storage.

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Oooo... a very nasty thought...

What about the next category 5 that blows through south florida and knocks out power??? You think the supermarket freezer is going to stink after a few days with no power.... imagine that

That just sends chills down my spine!

I seriously question the logic to this kind of operation:

Assume that any significant portion of the population decides to freeze themselves in the hopes of being revived in the future.

First of all, why would any future generation want to? They are already inheriting all the problems we are making today and will have to find a way to deal with them. Do we really expect them to have to deal with hoardes of cranky old farts that are freshly rejuvinated, and now want to live out thier (possibly endless?) sunset years?

What does the future generations owe these people to thaw them out and fix them?