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Do we know for sure that people are completely unconscious while preserved? It would be unpleasant to be stuck upside down in a vat of liquid nitrogen unable to

• tritium 9y ago
  Given that most of the chemical processes of neurology are halted by rendering the usual liquid soup of metabolism completely inert, any rememberance of dreaming or sensation is going to occur in the transient periods of going under or coming out of storage. To borrow from the array of Inception memes, your sense of time in the dream world is distorted, which is why dreams can feel like days-long ordeals even though you’ve probably never had a dream last even 2 hours, let alone 8. So if you do come out of it with trippy dream-like memories or weird emotional feelings as residue from nightmares, what will they amount to? I guess it could be unpleasant, but if you’re going to get on living, you’ll have to figure out a way to get over it and move on. I mean, whatever baggage you wind up with is going to be stacked next to what amounts to an (almost assuredly unsettling) near death experience, and waking up alone anyway, with (very likely) no friends or loved ones to offer support after you wake back up, so you’ll have that to cope with as well. No one promised that living forever would be easy.