quote:Originally posted by Rakeesh: Well, there's a good chance I'll regret this, but...creepy why?
It's just unusual. Just imagine viability of the embryo remaining intact after being frozen for decades and decades and a child of a couple being born after their death (having left the embryos to people of their choice in their will) =o. Or ambitious people absolutely forgoing childbirth until their late 40s at which point they hire surrogates to sire the embryos they had frozen decades earlier. Maybe in the future these sorts of things will be routine but right now it feels novel and weird.
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My grandmother was twenty years older than her youngest sister, so it's not like that possible element of the situation would be unnatural. But honestly, with the possibility of adopting other couple's unwanted embryos already a reality, it would be surprising if a child hasn't already been born after it's biological parents' deaths.
Ultimately, I think this is a very hopeful story, especially for people suffering from cancer who may have to freeze embryos in their teens or early twenties in order to have children later.
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I guess it's the time element of it that's a bit unsettling. In any case, I agree that it's a hopeful story.
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Huh. I kind of just assumed this was possible, so I wasn't surprised by the article.
quote:Or ambitious people absolutely forgoing childbirth until their late 40s at which point they hire surrogates to sire the embryos they had frozen decades earlier.
This is what I want to do (early 40s instead of late 40s, unless indefinite life extension happens). That or use an artificial womb, which seems much more convenient all around. Honestly, I just don't want to be pregnant ever, or have a child before I'm established enough in my career to avoid the anti-mother wage penalty. Technological advance is lovely =)
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quote:This is what I want to do (early 40s instead of late 40s, unless indefinite life extension happens). That or use an artificial womb, which seems much more convenient all around. Honestly, I just don't want to be pregnant ever, or have a child before I'm established enough in my career to avoid the anti-mother wage penalty. Technological advance is lovely =)
I'm wondering if this is where Sa'eed is going with this. It's creepy because women shouldn't want avoid pregnancy while still having children of their own.
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Do babies, actually, bounce? If so, what is their coefficient of restoration? If it's high enough, we could use them to store energy. Hmm... there might be a paper in that. Anyone have some spare babies I can run the experiments on? We could have a barbecue afterwards.
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I just think it's creepy because that's a person who's been stuck in suspended animation for nearly two decades!
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