Cryogenics. What do you think?

[luchog]

There's also the Another Cold Morning episode of Warren Ellis' Transmetropolitan, in which the frozen bodies have their personalities reconstructed and injected into newly grown bodies. The vast majority then go into future shock and end up as insane drains on the state.

I always though that that was the most realistic, though probably not as universal as Ellis described it, way of looking at cryonic revival. While I'm sure there are people who could handle the culture shock with aplomb, for the average person, it has to be devastating.

Another good look at that kind of "future shock" (not cryonic revival, but the effect is the same) is Stanislaw Lem's Return From the Stars. The main character doesn't go batsh1t, but he's on the edge for most of the book.

 

[epepke]

This is one of those things that people seem to have to describe as bushwa, or else other skeptics won't talk to them. It's a kind of shibboleth.

David Brin wrote an interesting article and estimated the probability of getting revived at about 7% and then compared that to the investment compared to the result and found it a fair gamble. He got it published in The Skeptic, I think. I was surprised to see it, because of the shibboleth nature.