@RegularJoe@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world • 11 days agoAustralian actor starts fundraiser to cryogenically preserve son, who died by suicide after bullyingwww.nbcnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square43fedilinkarrow-up1114arrow-down117
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minus-squareMentalEdgelinkfedilink44•11 days agoEven in the most generous scenarios, cryopreservation of a person has to be done quickly, lest the brain decay. Current methods cannot achieve it to begin with. Let alone once the person has been dead for days.
minus-squarez3rOR0nelinkfedilink9•11 days agoThis. Even if cloning humans were legal, and she wanted to clone him, or freeze his deceased body to clone him in the future, she’d only have a few hours before his DNA was no longer viable for cloning. This is just sad on so many levels.
minus-square@malin@thelemmy.clublinkfedilink-1•11 days ago she’d only have a few hours before his DNA was no longer viable for cloning. Is this true?
minus-squarez3rOR0nelinkfedilink2•11 days agoIf animal cloning after death is any indication. You have up to 48 hours after death to preserve the tissue and clone it.
Even in the most generous scenarios, cryopreservation of a person has to be done quickly, lest the brain decay.
Current methods cannot achieve it to begin with. Let alone once the person has been dead for days.
This. Even if cloning humans were legal, and she wanted to clone him, or freeze his deceased body to clone him in the future, she’d only have a few hours before his DNA was no longer viable for cloning.
This is just sad on so many levels.
Is this true?
If animal cloning after death is any indication. You have up to 48 hours after death to preserve the tissue and clone it.