"The Prospect of Human Immortality Through the Scientific Method of Cryonic Suspension"
Have you ever wondered where the idea for freezing humans after death really came from?
What about the scientific, ethical and legality issues involved?
What would the future be like for someone once thawed?
Has nanotechnology opened new vistas of hope for cryonic suspension, and of course the stabilized revival to a healthy life???
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"Robert C.W. Ettinger: The Father of Modern Cryonic Human Preservation"
During the early 1960's, Robert C.W. Ettinger authored "The Prospect of Immortality" and ignited a completely new dimension to the term 'clinical death'!
He has said that death can only be defined in relative terms, and he points to the hundreds of persons revived after drowning, asphyxiation, electrocution and heart attacks.
"Biological death depends not only on the state of the body", Ettinger says, "But also on the state of medical art during any given time-period of history!"
Instead of being embalmed, a body should be kept under refrigeration to prevent deterioration --- so there is still a chance for a continuation of life!
Death has been known to deceive even the finest doctors time after time!
The entire subject of Cryonics is currently based upon 'future' scientific medical discoveries, such as is being seen in the advent of Nano-Technology!
If the new discoveries of medicine continue to exponentially increase, and if civilization continues to advance, then the resolution of most any medical dilemma is quite plausible!!!
As to the cost ($$$), what would be the cost of human immortality???
There is no such thing as a "Sure Thing" concerning anything in this life; however, based upon the actual precedents currently being set within all medical fields, the statistical odds are increasing toward probable solutions.
Some people have only been able to afford their 'head' frozen, and in the future it may become possible to grow a complete new body or just download the consciousness into a cybernetic organism!
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