Heard about one guy who got cryogenically frozen for a thousand years and is best friends with a robot and is dating a one eyed sewer mutant so they don't all end badly.

18 naked frozen bodies in the freezers at ram ranch. Rock hard bodies waiting to get thawed

Ever freeze lettuce and try to thaw it out? Yeah, that's what happens to the body when frozen. Ice crystals are jagged and destroy cells.

One of my sorority sisters was cryogenically frozen. She had terminal brain cancer and figured the worst case scenario was permanent death, which was a given anyway, but this way it wouldn’t be terribly drawn out. Best case scenario, some sort of future technology somehow is able to save her and wake her up one day. I hope she still is in decent condition, but she acknowledged herself that it was a minuscule, albeit slightly less that zero, percent chance for the best. I always think of her when I listen to this Modest Mouse song with the lyrics, “Time and life shook hands and said goodbye.” Her name was Kim Suozzi. I believe you can still find a mini documentary on her.

Imagine coming back to life after being frozen, only to find yourself rotting away as soon as you're revived

I'm a mortician and everyone in my field find the entire cryogenic industry extremely disrespectful and horribly unregulated. They're selling false hope in a fancy coffin with an extremely high mark up. Death is scary, but we need to lift the social taboo on death to have real discussions on our after life planning.

Just cryogenically freeze me until cryogenic freezing is scientifically possible and then freeze me in that one

I heard rumors of a guy working on a mining crew who was meant to be cryogenically frozen for 18 months as punishment for violating the no pets policy. He woke up WAAAAY later than intended to learn that the entire crew had died, leaving him alone with the ship’s senile AI, a hologram of his supervisor, a descendant of his cat, and an android they had rescued.

I'm an engineer working with a cryogenic cooling research company, and because of these geezers, I now have to always say "No, not the corpses one" when people ask...

I actually like the idea that Frozen was made just to hide the myth

There's a Golden Girls episode where Rose has to go under for surgery and dreams she, Dorothy, and Blanche have had their heads cryogenically frozen. As they're arguing, "heads" in trays of ice on their kitchen table, Sophia casually walks in with the body of a 20-year old. When they all ask her how in the hell she has a body she responds "you didn't tip the guy?"🤣 That poor goldfish!

I remember my dad telling me a story about my Grandfather, and how when he was a kid, his family would sometimes spend the winter at a farm in Alberta, Canada owned by my Grandpas Uncle, Jack. Anyways, the winters up their were brutal. They would have a rope running from the house to the barn so that you didn't get lost in the 3-foot visibility caused by the snow. One fateful winter, uncle jack would pass away. Now you can't exactly dig a six-foot deep hole in the rock solid, snow covered ground in the middle of January. So they wrapped him up in a old carpet, and stuck him in the hay loft in the barn, where he lay frozen until spring, when they buried him at the family cemetery, where he lies to this day. I have heard that this was pretty common back in the day for anyone who died in the winter in Alberta or any other place of a similarly northern latitude. RIP Great-Great Uncle Jack.

Having a holiday where a town of people come to celebrate because of you feels like a better kind of preservation than being frozen forever.

The amount of preservation ice is capable of is incredible. Even more so for animals that are capable of surviving being frozen like wood frogs unlike that unfortunate goldfish

Actual mortuary care is all about dignity and respect. They care for the surviving loved ones in their worst days and allow them to see their dead one last time. The dead are at their most vulnerable, yet are treated with the most respect. There is nothing more undignified or terrible than stuff like this

My biggest fear is dying, unable to move, speak, all that, but somehow still being aware of what is going on around me and happening to my body. Being buried or cremated sound horrible, but getting shoved in a frozen tube for decades is what nightmares are made of

"I haven't done anything criminal, anything wrong other than a lot of bad decisions." Great quote.

This confuses me. Doesn't the whole idea of cryo-stasis hinge on the idea of being frozen while still alive, in order to be revived when a cure for your ailment is found? What does freezing after death accomplish?

You can throw flies in the refrigerator and they will go into hibernation until you warm them up. I used to find "dead" flies at work in the coolers only to warm them up in my hands and watch them fly away about half an hour later. A handful of other animals have built in "anti-freeze" too, like some frogs and a species of caterpillar.

I love it when these kinds of people make books. They're always titled things like "Freezing people is not easy", or "I didn't murder anyone no sir-ee" or "I did not visit Epsteine's island on june 1997"

I'm a butcher-food scientist by trade, sometimes we handle product that has been frozen to some pretty extreme temps below 0 way below 0 and have worked in blast freezers that will could kill you in 15 minutes or less if your not wearing proper clothes and one of the worst burns I've ever had came not from a fire but from a box that had been inside a ice cream freezer directly under the fans. I touched the box for maybe 7-9 seconds and felt pain all the way to the bone and a few days later all the skin died there turned all scaley and eventually fell off.

"America needs nudism to end crime." As if I ever need an excuse to get naked.

As a former employee of Disneyland, I can tell you from having access to all the crazy, ridiculous, tunnels all throughout Disneyland, there was never a sign of Walt being frozen, unless he was not frozen in Disneyland. Because as employees, we had access to everything. And as a photographer, I usually traveled all throughout those tunnels just hunting for photo moments. There was no sign of Disney.

If _some how_ Walt Disney was able to be brought back today he would immediately die upon hearing the state of his beloved Disney corporation.

I love Whang's channel because sometimes you learn about weird shit people jerked off into and other times you get horrifying yet very fascinating history videos.

I would still trust the National Spotlight more than any politician.

A friend of mine had a goldfish when his area was left without power for 3 weeks in the deep of winter -- the ice storm that hit Eastern Canada in 1998. When he returned he assumed that the goldfish was dead, but once the water was warmed up sufficiently the goldfish came back to life, doing goldfish things. 6 months later he gave the goldfish to another friend who overfed it, and it died.

A really bizarre problem that's just occurred to me is that even if you get reanimated in your own body with your own brain, because all electrical activity in the brain ceased it could be argued that the 'you' that wakes up would actually be a copy as it's functionally a new consciousness created from your memories, like the brain scan problem but with meat instead of circuits

Growing up my parents had a small man made Pond with several fish. Every winter they would freeze solid entirely and you could even see them solid in the ice but every summer it would thaw and the fish was fine. I think it depends greatly on the speed in which it freezes and defrosts. Idk I'm not a doc but those fish lived years like that.

I find cryogenics and the people who believe in it to be fascinating. If anybody is interested there’s a really great hour-long video by Atrocity Guide called “It’s Embarrassing to Die: An Immortalist Story” that covers the history of cryogenics as well as other topics related to people wanting/trying to live forever.

Death is scary but becoming soup in a can is worse than terrifying.

So there was once an owner of a website dedicated to a kind of obscure game series who unfortunately passed away and her head was frozen by Alcor. I made the mistake of reading the case report Alcor wrote. These people have terrible protocols. Even if cryonics could work there's no way it wasn't too late to meaningfully preserve her brain. The whole report felt like one series of fuckups after another, as well as an experimental desecration of her corpse more than anything actually professional. It utterly destroyed any hope I had in cryonics being possible for humans, at least within this century. If the company can't even keep someone's brain reasonably intact on a macroscopic level long enough to get it into cold storage, what's the point of being frozen at all? Just a waste of electricity...

A uk scientist, James lovelock, froze hamsters then revived them with microwaves back in the 50s. I think they perfected the resurrection eventually but a lot of the hamsters got burns from heating elements. They scaled it up but it wouldn't work on bigger creatures likely because of the depth the microwaves need to penetrate and the varying speeds of thawing as a result. Hamsters just happened to be the perfect size.

It's interesting to think that from the perspective of the frozen people, they already know what happens. They've either been revived, or died. So it's not really them waiting to be revived, but everyone else waiting to see if or when we can revive them

I always looked at cryogenics as a gamble: You die and get frozen, and either the technology to revive you will become available in the future, or it won't and you simply stay dead, thus loosing nothing. The alternative is getting buried/cremated and leaving behind nothing that could potentially be revived. So it's a miniscule chance for life in the future, versus a guarantee of being gone forever. If I had the money, I would gladly take this gamble. Besides, the kind of technology required to revive someone is basicly molecular/cellular level repair, which could also make you virtually immortal.

Water expands when you freeze it. The human body is like 60-70% water. Maybe now you understand why there's cracks and fractures in it. Honestly, if we ever were going to "freeze" a body, I think we'd have to freeze it in a liquid stasis, of some sort. By that I mean, keeping it cold without it actually freezing solid. The trouble with that is, the reason why we freeze it solid in the first place is because stuff doesn't decompose because all the water is effectively gone, since it's ice. The reason why mummies are preserved so well is because they've been desiccated so well there's nothing left to really rot from it. So the conundrum is how do you keep something so cold it _can't_ rot, while also not freezing it solid and destroying every cell? Some animals like frogs and bugs seem to be able to do this, but they have some anti-freeze like substance in their bodies.

Apparently the earliest application of a traditional microwave oven (not the discovery story with the guy who had a chocolate bar in his pocket), was to unfreeze frozen hamsters to rehabilitate them, and it *worked*. That said the experiment concluded that this couldn't be ramped up for larger creatures, including humans, iirc it had to do with the scale of cell structure between smaller and larger organisms (as cells tend to burst when frozen).

Justin Whang opening this video with THE KZfaqr narrating creepypasta song made me laugh more than it should have.

I recommend the "Bobiverse" series of novels. It's about a guy killed in a random car accident, is cryogenically frozen, then thawed out and forced into servitude as a digital replicant who controls a self replicating VonNuemann space probe. It's a great series

The technology required to adequately preserve a body or even just a brain would probably be so advanced that they'd probably just be able to cure whatever medical issue the person had to begin with.

"John Wayne's not dead, he's frozen! And as soon as we find a cure for cancer we're gonna thaw out the Duke, and he's gonna be one pretty pissed off Duke. You know why? Have you ever taken a cold shower? Well, multiply that by fifteen million times, that's how pissed off the Duke's gonna be."

If I ever get cryogenically frozen I want to do it in a convenience store freezer, that way I can get Moonpies when I thaw out

I'm the Medical Sergeant for a SAR & Disaster Response. It's absolutely incredible how many times we've found humans and animals frozen (and we thought) to death. Only to find signs of life barely able to register on both our personal equipment or the higher level machines to register as they thaw. We teach "You're not dead until you're warm and dead."

I read a Scientific American article back in the early 2000s that said that the natural "antifreeze" in the blood and body fluids of tiny things like insects, but up to fairly large amphibians would be the way to proceed. The idea being that simply freezing, even with liquid nitrogen, is still so uneven that significant portions of the body freeze at the temperature of scarcely below 32F. That results in ice crystal formation in each individual cell, that causes the cell to rupture as it freezes. Everybody has known of this consequence since day one. And part of the technology that would be needed to revive such frozen bodies would be figuring out how to repair all of that cellular damage. But the antifreeze in certain animal bodies which allows like frogs to freeze solid at the bottom of a lake, literally in suspended animation, keeps them ice crystals from forming and instead of freezing, the frog body undergoes "vitrification". It essentially turns into a piece of glass. The same "antifreeze" (I forget what it was called) then allows normal thawing to take place and the cells are completely undamaged and the frog can then go about its business. The idea being to derive such a substance that could be infused, embalming style into a human body and thus preclude freezing damage. There might be a bit more delay, but apart from the potential of autolysis, (cells eating their ownselves after death--you got about a few minutes, maybe, from the cessation of vascular circulation, so I'm not sure how you rocket that liquid into the body. Under normal circumstances of life, blood completely circulates the body in about 40 seconds) the cells would then be in a state of perfect pristine anatomical preservation. And yes, they knew about the autolysis issue from day one as well. Then you can put them bodies in the liquid nitrogen tank. I mostly forgot about that article until I saw this video just now. I have no idea if anything came of this research. Or if anything has ever been derived/developed. But as demonstrated by nature, the concept certainly seems sound.

After hearing so many tales from the Internet, it wouldn't surprise me if walt being cryogenically frozen turned out to be a mickey figurine in frozen in a jar with bodily fluids 🥶🤣

For a guy whose last name is hope, that one guy sure didn't have much of it when running his cryogenics business.

This video brings up a weird childhood memory. My uncle used to own a gas station in 1996 when I was 11 and I would sometimes hang out in the front office when my dad was there helping out. He had this little old black and white TV with rabbit ears on the desk, that would only pick up like one channel. One afternoon I was sitting there and there just happened to be this random news magazine show on where they were talking all about cryogenics and freezing dead celebrities. I think they may have talked about that Deblasio guy. I found it creepy. What a weird random moment.

In high school in like 2004 i did a debate in speech class about cryogenic freezing of people. I was "for" the process and i remember researching Alcor at the time. Crazy to hear about them 20 years later!

13:43 He had every opportunity to call it “It’s Not Easy Being Freezy” but he missed it!

Cryogenics has always been a very interesting sci-fi subject, not surprising we're no where near that future though, there's so many systems that are important for life that re-starting them all is, right now, just unthinkable.

I'm now remembering the episode of the golden girls where one of them imagines they've had their cryogenically preserved heads thawed out only to end up as talking heads on platters, when Sophia walks in with her new, young body and old head. 🤣

The fact that there are creatures that can survive freezing shows the idea at least on paper has merit. Now as to the practical reality of freezing something as complex as a human? Most probably not, but then we also live in an age of technology that 100 years ago would be basically considered magic.

Interesting fact about goldfish the colder the temperature the longer they will survive without food. Also they can live up to 25 years and they can grow absolutely giant all it depends on is how mcuh food they are given. My brother palmed one of on me 13 years ago when he moved and it's still alive, I never wanted Noblet yet I think he'll outlive me at this point and I had to buy a new tank because he's too big and this was a tank I originally had 3 goldfish in with adequate room.

I've always wondered if cryogenics would be a good idea to sign up for, it could be possible you wake up in the future and have a weird extended life or it could be horrible. Like what if you wake waaay too far in future and humans look slightly off because of evolution or you turn out to be a freak of nature in a cyborg body.

It was science fiction author Poul Anderson who used the word corpesicle for the people cryogenically frozen. He wrote an intriguing story set in the future, where the money to maintain the corpesicles has run out, and transplant medicine has greatly advanced . . .

Freezing someone solid would not be the way to go anyway. We might be able to achieve some form of suspended animation, by keeping someone at .001 above freezing. The expansion of many substances by a hard freeze just does too much damage.

I always kinda thought that trying to thaw a frozen dead body might turn out to just causing these ppl immeasurable pain due to tissue/organ/bone damage. It sounds like it could be potentially horrifying

I did that with goldfish when I was working at a pet store and we had hundreds of cheap feeder fish. I froze them but some of the water still needed to be liquid in the middle of the water cup for them to reliably be revived. This made sense to me since they can survive winters with their pond freezing, but not if it freezes completely.

Neuropreservation reminds me of the horrors in That Hiddeous Strength by C.S. Lewis. They preserved a guy's severed head and kept it alive by connecting it to tubes and wires (only for it to be posessed by "Macrobes", i.e. demons)

Not gonna lie, the theory that they named the movie Frozen as a bizarre form of SEO for "Disney's Frozen" is one of those where I gotta love the creativity of whoever came up with it

Thank you for not just insulting people who are in cryonics. That's more than many are capable of.

Whatever happened, and whatever will happen, i will always respect both the scientists and the patients for daring to try.

The founder of ALCOR may have murdered his mother for his work. That’s a wild story in and of itself.

Always got THE BEST videos man!

In the graphic novel Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson they have an interesting spin on chryonics. The story is set far in the future and reviving frozen people is trivial. The problem is that the it turns out the human mind is incapable of handling the shock of returning to world that is unlike anything they have experienced.

Holy crap Lois, Man made horrors beyond my comprehension!

The joke is, Disney wasn’t frozen, the put him in suspended animation. (The amount of people you have to explain this joke to is astounding)

In Spain, the Walt Disney being frozen myth became so strong, it ended up becoming one of his main traits and ending up in so many pop culture jokes and staples, especially during the 1990s.

Imagine if he was actually brought back, and how disappointed he would be in his legacy.

The "How To With John Wilson" episode on cryogenic freezing was insane. Worth checking out.

Perfect for Halloween. Morbidly enjoyable. Thank you sir.

The only reason it worked for Steve Rogers is because he was still alive when he crashed into the ice and had a far stronger molecular structure due to the super soldier serum.

Growing up I was always terrified of the concept of cryogenics because of the Carbon-Freezing scene in Star Wars. The concept of being frozen, alive or dead, especially against your will was genuinely traumatizing to me. And don't even get me started on the Magic School Bus space episode.

Coming from someone who's been clinically DOA for over 45mins with total kidney & heart failure before being brought back & put into a medical coma for 2 months, I can say that BEING UNALIVE is VASTLY better than the horrific experience of having your broken, non-functional body forced back to life & forced to keep going for years, decades... It's the worst thing that's happened to me, thru a lifetime of being a medical lab rat... 😬

Very informative. Very entertaining. Well produced. Exceptionally well Delivered monologue. Subscribed. Had to throw away the rest of my "Otter Pop" halfway through.

The highlight in the hair is really well done

I remember in Jason X they mentioned that the found a bunch of frozen people before but don't bother trying to revive most of them if they're not a person of interest. This video made me think of that lol.

First time watching one of your videos, I just wanna point out the background music during your advert was from River City Ransom and it brought back major nostalgia.

I love how in Fallout 4, Bethesda made a reference to Walt Disney in their Nuka World DLC. It was funny and terrifying at the same time, to say the least.

Talking about freezing insects. There was this HUGE Spider and, well, I hate Spiders. I grabbed a can of compressed air, turned it upside down and went to town on that spider. It was frozen and it just sat there on it's web for like three weeks. One day while doing yardwork I noticed it had moved and when I went to check it out the spider was alive, except it was paralyzed on one side. Felt kind of bad about that as I just assumed it would kill it or wouldn't.

Holy crap, you actually covered Frozen Dead Guy Days! I stayed in Nederland, CO briefly over the summer for a camping trip with my roommates and found out about it while I was just reading up on the town.

One of the cryo facilities where they store frozen bodies lost power once, potentially ruining all of their subjects. I think it's a far fetched pipedream. Being brought back to life but I like the idea of Futurama's heads in the jars

The ECW static transition is a wonderful touch

I always thought people having cryogenics wouldve done it when they were alive and not when they're already dead. Maybe cryogenics would have worked if the person is still alive before they died. Cant really be brought back to life if u weren't alive in the first place, y'know

Imagine if they did find a way to thaw people but it doesn't work with the old freezing method

idk why but i could listen to u talk about cryogenics for hours

I'm 62 years old and I 100% remember it going around that Walt Disney was cryogenically frozen as a matter of fact I believed it for 30 years just until 10 years ago or so I always thought it was true I didn't really ever check into it but yeah that rumor went around a lot when I was younger I believe there's so much that I remember helping spread the rumor like I knew what I was talking about

I think you should do more videos like this. They're very interesting and i love them

i love when this guy uploads

The better plan would be developing a “re-gestation chamber”, placing the body in a prolonged regenerative hibernate state, while the body is being repaired via exogenous methods that are natural to the human body, maybe some DNA repair & gene editing may also be necessary before & after the fact. The only part holding me back is I have absolutely no clue how any of this stuff is going to work lol! I’ve only been a bio systems engineering grad for less than a year so…🤷‍♂️…I do have my theories though😂 So if there are any Doctors or scientists in the comments, please feel free to chime in with some ideas, especially Endocrinologists, Pharmacologists, Neuroscientists, Surgeons, and biochemists/molecular biologists, we can do this 💪😂.

I just now realized, why did all the celebrity heads in jars choose to be heads in jars when they couldve just been frozen like fry

I watched Atrocity Guide's video about cryogenics and became obsessed with the subject for a short while. Glad to have another video to binge watch about the subject

Every whang video is a banger

>gets cancer >cryogenically frozen the year is 3000 >thawed out >cancer still there

I have had fish freeze and unfreeze in my pond fine. The most crazy one is with frogs and toads, you can find footage of it online they allow themselves to essentially freeze.

I always assumed you would have to be alive to be cryogenically frozen with the intention of being brought back.

Excellent video! I've had an interest in cryonics since ... well, since hearing about in the early '70's, & I can remember the Chatsworth scandal well. After all these years of following the subject, I still am not sure if it will ever be practical, or even possible for that matter, but the topic continues to fascinate me. BTW, according to Robert Nelson, Walt Disney's people DID reach out to the California Cryonics society looking for more information, but they weren't ready to preform the procedure yet, & later wound up going with Robert Bedford instead. Thus the legend was born.

The guy driving the truck with his dead mom reminds me of what Casey Kasem's wife did to him. (Kasem was a famous radio DJ who also did cartoon voices. He was the original Shaggy from Scooby Doo and many others.) Jean Kasem would drive Casey around the country to prevent his kids from another marriage from seeing him. He was in no condition to travel so this killed him. Then she continued driving his dead body around for months and had him buried in a country he had no connection to.

*_Imagine waking up from cryo and finding out that your wife has been killed and your child kidnapped, and then find out your kid grew up to be a big ol' jerk._*

Icelandic KZfaqr mörges did that fly thing with a bumblebee once and it worked. She walked it on a string leash outside. lol