Cryonics is the study and practice of keeping a newly dead body at an extremely low temperature with the purpose of preserving and hopefully restoring it to life at some future date; perhaps decades or even centuries later (Alcor Life Extension Foundation, 1993, p. 60). The potential success of cryonic suspension relies heavily on continued advances in medical technology, especially nanotechnology, to not only treat the original cause of death, but also to repair the cell damage caused by freezing the body. For this and other reasons, cryonics has provoked a lot of controversy. Many people believe strongly in it, while others think it will never be successful. In the end, people who choose cryonics, as a way of extending life, have nothing to lose and potentially immortality to gain.
While the practice of cryonics has only been around for about 50 years, the idea of preserving a human body after death, and later reviving it, has been around for hundreds of years. In a letter dated April 1773, Benjamin Franklin wrote: I wish it were possible to invent a method of embalming drowned persons, in such a manner that they might be recalled to life at any period, however distant; for having a very ardent desire to see and observe the state of America a hundred years hence, I should prefer to an ordinary death, being immersed with a few friends in a cask of Madeira wine, until that time, then to be recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country! But in all probability, we live in a century too little advanced, and too near the infancy of science, to see such an art brought in our time to its perfection (Franklin, 1956, p. 29).
The idea of preserving and later reanimating a dead body continued to evolve in popular literature. There are many examples, including Jack London's "A Thousand Deaths" (1899), in which the hero is intentionally frozen in order to be resuscitated, three months later (London, 1899, pp.
The world has many very important scientific questions that need to be answered. One of these questions has to do with cryonics. Is cryonics moral or immoral? What about the legal issues with cryonics? I believe there should be no question on whether or not cryonics should be considered an illega...
This is the discipline known as cryonics. Cryonics is about life, not death. ... We live scarred with fear, grief, and puzzlement, because we must live with the fact that in fifty years -- or twenty, or ten, or even tomorrow -- our lives and the lives of everyone we love will come to an end. ... Cryonics makes it so that life is conquered. ... Cryonics is not a new way of storing dead bodies. ...
Then the body or head is stored in a dewar, which is like a thermos, and put into cold storage. ... The fact that cryonicist are not completely sure the process is going to work should be reason enough not to allow this kind of procedure. ... The fact cryonics has not been proven yet is frightening. ... The people of Alcor do not go into cold storage where the patients are kept and exercise the muscles of the suspended people. ... (Cryonics). ...
An inquiry into how the practice of Cryonics effects and shapes understandings of identity, body and death, in postmodern Christianity. The practice of cryonics could only flourish in the postmodern era, a time peppered by society's growing emphasis on body and identity. ... Alcor is the world's largest provider of cryonics services and was established in 1972. ... Alcor state on their website that cryonics is still an unproven procedure with many uncertainties . ... Cryonics is perhaps a more understandable procedure for those whose lives have been cut short and this was primar...
In fact, death has become so progressively invisible, death no longer seems natural and has transformed into a subject so taboo that so much unnecessary controversy has developed surrounding whether or not children should be exposed to death-related activities including funerals. ... In fact, these procedures have become so widely accepted and practiced that socialites often hold "Botox parties- where guests sip on Metropolitans and gossip while a doctor circulates to inject each guest with Botox on their problem areas, granting each of them a bit of false hope and time. ... Is cryonics on...
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These are Cloning, Cryonics, Calorie Restriction and Hormone Replacement Therapy. ... Cryonics, simply stated, is the rapid cooling of a person's body, usually in liquid nitrogen, in order to preserve the tissue, cellular and molecular structure. ... There are two types of cryonics, Neuropreservation and Full Body suspension. ... These are Cloning, Cryonics, Calorie Restriction and Hormone Replacement Therapy. ...
"The cold war was the inevitable global conflict between capitalism and communism" Since 1945 to 1991 the world faced a non-violent war know as the Cold War. ... Lets start to analyze the facts that may let to assure as that the Cold War was an inevitable global conflict between capitalism and communism. To begin with, The Cold War was a struggle between conflicting universal values. ... In fact, it gained support from, especially, Western Europe. ... If both sides had accepted these new spheres of influence, a cold war might never have occurred. ...
Cold War The cold war is one of the strangest wars ever. ... In this ideologically hostile environment the Cold War began. ... The post-Cold War "new world order" is not, like in the Cold War, dominated by ideology, but by economics. ... Since the end of the Cold War a "new World order" has established itself. ... The world has changed because of the cold war. ...