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It's an interesting what-if, but we know enough about biology to say with certainty that the human body does not work that way.

But that defeats the purpose of living forever

#1 Your reference to shutting a computer down is like being frozen, you're basically dead hoping to be brought back to life in the future.

#2 You aren't living if you do a shut down, at most maybe you enter REM sleep and dream for the rest of eternity, and that's IF your body can survive "shut down", and that's a no.

#3 Your body is not a computer, it is not a piece of hardware. It is made of organic matter that today's scientists are STILL trying to figure out. You can't just stop all bodily functions and start them back up like Frankenstein.

Basically no, You can't live forever by "Shutting Down" your body

(I apologize if I sounded a bit harsh)

Problem is we die and wear out because we are constantly renewing ourselves through cell division. The rate of renewal slows down and the copy of a copy of a copy begins to wear out and be farther and farther away from the original. So, a shut down presently would simply be a delay in the process not a renewal. If you could continue to stimulate renewals and have them maintain the same characteristics, then you would have something. However, longer lives would mean more opportunity for cancers, unless your process for perfecting cell division worked universally as well in eliminating defects and mutations, the higher rate of cell division would lead to more problems, not less, as we aged.

cryogenic freezing, slows the heart to almost not beating but u r still alive. look it up might find it interesting

Problem is, if we are in a dormant state, how would we "restart"?

LOL @ shitting