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Well Cryonics is one of the few where the afterlife is back here with the rest of us. There was an interesting story where these people were revived in the future but were basically welfare cases without any of the modern implants and conveniences and no money or credit to get them they were unemployable. Then there is Woody Allen's "Sleeper" :-)


There's also a fun Star Trek TNG about the crew finding a spaceship with three cryogenically preserved people from the 1990s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Neutral_Zone_(Star_Trek:_Th...


you might be thinking of the Transmetropolitan issue "Another Cold Morning"

http://www.comicvine.com/transmetropolitan-8-another-cold-mo...


Not that exact source but the same theme. Kind of sobering. A friend of mine is an Alcor member and totally ready to be frozen if he can't upload his mind into the Internet first.


> Well Cryonics is one of the few where the afterlife is back here with the rest of us.

I would argue that that's not the case. See my other comment here, contrasting cryonics with reincarnation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8239950

> There was an interesting story where these people were revived in the future but were basically welfare cases...

Some religions have two versions of the afterlife: there's heaven, and then there's hell...




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