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[Star Wars] How long would Han Solo live in carbonite?

Jaba seemed to want to keep him like that indefinitely. How long would he have lasted? Would he last forever? Could he Philip J Fry himself forward in time for thousands of years?
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If they were using a proper carbon freezing unit, Han likely would have kept for decades or longer. But they weren't.

Before hyperdrives were a thing, carbon freezing was used to keep starship crews alive long enough to reach their destinations. Of course, the process was rough, and it was retired ASAP; spacers would come out of years-long stasis with symptoms similar to Han's, or worse. Over time, the knowledge of how to safely freeze people long-term and build and maintain a "spaceflight grade" carbon rig became more and more niche, with fewer and fewer people having an interest in storing people that way. At the time of Empire, most of the carbon freezing hardware is only intended for industrial use, food storage, and so on, and the hardware isn't really meant for people, meaning that hibernation sickness starts setting in almost immediately after they're frozen. While Han's body would have been preserved nigh-indefinitely, had the rescue taken much longer to stage he likely would have suffered permanent and escalating damage; had they tried to "Futurama" him, they would likely just be thawing out a well preserved corpse.

Edit: wrong word.