I seem to remember a recent news item about a whole bunch of frozen people thawing into goop and having to be washed out of the chambers.

If I shared the same insane and impotent obsession with the future, I would pay more to be turned into a fossil, all my cells replaced with minerals. Much more durable and the same zero chance of ever living again.

A man in his 80s? Bruh. if I die in my 80s you put a bullet in me to make sure I stay down. Last thing I wanna do is wake back up!

Good luck to him, I guess. With the speed at which life is changing now, even if he is successfully brought back and de-aged, it will likely be extremely difficult to adapt.

This shit always makes me giggle.

You wanna know what happens to all the moisture in your body when you freeze it?

It crystallizes, turning basically every cell in your body into an expanding razor blade which slices through every other cell.

Your brain gets turned into mush, held together by a matrix of ice.

Imagine dropping a piece of paper into a paper shredder, then putting those paper strips into a blender with water. Then you take the blended mass of paper mush out, and try to reassemble it.

That's what these people think medical technology can do in the future.

Fucking morons. There's nothing to put back together! It's fucked! You cannot unblend your death certificate!

If you don't believe me, try freeze a block of tofu at the back of your freezer at the coldest setting, then thaw it out.

I’d only consider doing this to follow Simon Phoenix into the future.

I would say they have a cryogenically frozen old guys chance in hell of ever being revived but hey, you never know I guess.

Even if they could reliably suspend a person and revive them in the future, what would motivate them to do so? Dead people cannot own assets, and so your customer would be a pauper by the time you defrosted them, in addition to being unequipped to cope with life in the future. (Prisoners finishing multi-decade sentences and finding themselves in a world where everything is done with mobile apps have it hard enough; someone walking up in, say, a century or two would have a vastly harder time.) And, given that running a high-spec corpse freezer costs money and has no proven results, and that your business is not preserving living humans for centuries but selling rich narcissists the promise of an afterlife, with the freezers as mere props, all the incentives would be to skimp on the most expensive parts and feign surprise when your customers turn out to have liquefied.

I remember reading a while ago that with medical and technical advances over the next 50 years, they reckoned that some people born now will be able to effectively live forever, eg replacing or regenerating body parts, cure cancer etc etc

I'd need to think for a while about if you could, would you want to live forever? I vaguely remember a sci fi short story that had this question as part one of it's themes.