Name: Coming Back to Life After Being Frozen for 100 Years
Uploaded: 2022-08-22T13:00:01.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Coming Back to Life After Being Frozen for 100 Years' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-08-22. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Coming Back to Life After Being Frozen for 100 Years' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-08-22. Transcript available.

What are the options that you guys offer for freezing,
just so I know, for the cryonics process at Alcor?
That's your company, Alcor.
And what are the options?
Like, what's the packages?
I should say, by the way, when you say a company,
it's actually a non-profit organization.
We're a 501c Texas A non-profit organization.
And that's important to us because as a profit-making company,
I've got nothing against that,
but it tends to not survive very long
if you look at them historically,
whereas non-profits, educational organizations,
religious organizations, they can survive for centuries.
That's why we're set up that way.
So nobody actually makes profits from this.
We have salary stuff, but nobody makes profits.
Well, I love that, man.
It's fascinating because, yeah,
I mean, you guys are basically like death, like Magellans.
I mean, you guys are out there just like, you know.
That's a good analogy.
I think that's a good analogy because when people say,
well, what kind of people do this?
Well, there are a number of factors,
but one of them that's really critical
is you have to be an explorer.
I mean, if you think about,
I've talked to so many people about this
and those who say, well, yeah,
I can see how this could work.
This is not implausible.
And then they go, but oh my God,
this might work.
That's scary.
Because they think about coming back
into a future baby 100 years from now.
Everything's radically different.
Their skills are outdated.
They don't know anybody.
And it horrifies them.
Which I think is one big reason
why there aren't more people doing this.
It tends to appeal to people
who have a Magellan type personality
and explorer personality
who look on that and say,
well, yeah, it's going to take some getting used to.
Although the organization,
part of its mission
is to help you get rehabilitated.
Yeah, you got to be brave
because you're going to go see your buddy
and he's going to be like 70 years older.
Or you're going to go,
or he's going to be gone.
All your,
like a lot of your friends might be gone.
Or say if you died at like 21
and you got frozen,
you come back 40 years later,
you're going to go over to your friend's house.
He's going to be 60, you know?
It's like everything's going to be...
Actually, probably not that
because, again,
the technology we're talking about
to reverse all the damage
that's been done
by that point that you legally die
plus the extra damage done in the process,
we will fix the aging problem
before we bring people back.
So at least your friend,
yeah, they may be 80 years older,
but they won't look 80 years older.
But yeah,
there'll still be that huge gap
in experience, obviously.
Now, it's better if you can persuade
your friends and family to come with you.
Yeah.
I know quite a few people.
I know a number of people
who are already cryopreserved
and my wife has signed up for this
and a lot of my friends are.
So I don't have that problem so much.
I'll know some people,
but not everybody will.
But, you know,
I'd still rather come back
not knowing anybody.
I mean, I came from England
to Los Angeles back in the 80s
and I didn't really know anybody
and it was a weird place here.
You had this kind of bright object
shining from the sky
instead of water falling on me,
which is,
what's up with that?
People driving on the wrong side
of the road and stuff,
but I managed to survive.
Over here, yeah,
in the 1700s
and we didn't know anybody.
Yeah.
You know?
Exactly.
It's like a journey through time
instead of a journey through space.
Dude, that's so,
there's so many things
going on here, man.
So,
but also,
you're going to bring your wife, bro?
That's a risky move, huh?
Why is that risky?
I mean,
I think it's great.
I think it's very honorable
and it's very,
it's very sweet and kind.
But what if like,
dude,
you know,
it just see,
you got to really be dialed in
for a lot,
you know,
because you only said what
for like,
what is the vow?
It's like,
Oh,
we didn't do that one though.
Oh,
it's till death do us part.
You should have said
till legal death do us part.
Yeah,
we didn't do that one
because we have a problem
with the idea of death.
no,
it does bring up
some interesting questions
because yeah,
I mean,
okay,
you've got 50 years together,
70 years together.
Okay,
but what about a thousand years together?
So,
but you know,
we'll worry about that
when it comes to it.
Yeah,
that's a good call.
So yeah,
you have to think of these people.
Yeah,
because you,
I think in the simplistic mind,
which I happen to possess,
thankfully for the both of us,
it's,
you just think like the,
the,
the animal,
the,
the,
the Neanderthal thoughts are like,
I'm going to live forever.
I'm going to come back,
but you don't think about after that.
Like,
do you,
like,
what do you guys do?
Do you guys just give them like a bus ticket,
like out of prison or whatever?
Do you guys like,
like what,
where,
where do you put them at?
Is there like a re-entry program?
Yes or no.
I mean,
no,
in the sense that this is still so far off that we can't really,
we can't really figure out.
We don't even know who will make the decision to bring you back.
I mean,
will it be our organization?
Will it be some kind of,
you know,
ethics panel of universities or a government thing?
We don't,
we don't even know that.
Right.
So we can't really plan in too much detail,
but yes,
we do think about it.
And we,
it's part of our mission statement.
You go to the website,
look at our mission statement.
Part of that is not just to wake you up and kind of shove you out the door and
say,
good luck,
man.
No,
we're going to actually rehabilitate you.
Here's a hand warmer.
Yeah,
exactly.
Yeah.
When today,
think about it today.
There are people who've been in comas for years,
even decades.
If you've seen the movie awakenings with Robert De Niro.
I just watched that movie a couple of months ago.
Can we bring some of that up?
That's fascinating.
Yeah.
Based on,
on,
on the book by Oliver Sacks.
So these are people who were basically in a special kind of coma.
Basically their dopamine levels in the brain were really low.
They're like frozen statues,
not really aware of the passage of time.
Some of them like that for more than the,
more than a decade or two.
And when they were woken up,
of course for some of them,
it was pretty horrifying because they'd suddenly aged overnight.
Yeah.
So a little like that set in our case,
it'd be the opposite of that.
Of course,
you look in the mirror and go,
damn,
I look good.
Yeah.
Right.
Because people would be excited because you would be bringing them back in.
So what you're saying is you're going to be bringing people back into their
best self.
Exactly.
Because of technology.
That'll help.
Because you'll come back not feeling crappy.
Like when you,
when you cease to function,
you'll come back feeling the best self.
Plus we are there to help you out.
We're going to rehabilitate whatever that will mean at the time.
It might mean,
you know,
we're going to put you in some virtual reality environment to sort of train how
the world works
before you step out in front of that flying car or whatever.
You know,
we don't really know what things will be like a hundred years from now.
Nobody does.
Anybody who says they do is lying because you just can't forecast that far
ahead.
Yeah.
That's future people.
If somebody says they're from the future,
brother,
probably lying.
Hope you enjoyed that video and you can watch another and you can watch this
one.
You can watch this one.
Different options,
different choices.
Some guy just brings you a one option,
not this guy,
two options.
Watch one.
This one or this one.