Thursday, September 13, 2018
Real undertakers do it better
Via ZH: A cryogenics firm is being sued by the family of one client after they mistakenly cremated the body instead of freezing it.
ZH probably intended this as semi-humorous clickbait. Everyone "knows" cryogenics is pointless because there's no chance of thawing back to life.
Common knowledge was valid until a few months ago, when Russian scientists SUCCESSFULLY thawed out some nematodes that had been frozen for thousands of years. Nematodes don't switch to antifreeze mode, so this was genuine reanimation of an animal that wasn't designed to be frozen. This opens a previously closed door.
Aside from the changed context, the mistake is unforgivable anyway. The cryogenics firm was keeping 159 bodies. That's not mass production, it's a quantity that can be handled and inspected CLOSELY AND CAREFULLY without a lot of bureaucracy.
Ordinary funeral homes do a much better job of storing and organizing remains.
AS FUCKING ALWAYS, long experience succeeds and Innovative Disruption kills.
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