Cryonic

Cryonics is the process of freezing body parts and organs for future use. At this time they are doing whole body and neurosuspensions. As soon as heartbeat and breathing in a member who has paid for this procedure cease, a transport team from Alcor takes over the care of the patient. Circulation and breathing are artificially restored and the patient is cooled and transported to Alcor's facilities. The patient is treated with drugs to minimize freezing injury and is then further cooled to the boiling point of liquid nitrogen (-320°F, -196°C) (Alcor, 1). Neurosuspensions are the freezing of the human head and brain. The reason for doing this is because it is much cheaper and they feel that all other body parts are replaceable by transplant. Alcor ch

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What if it works? What if you wake up one day in the moderately distant future, completely healthy (and very well rested)? What if you can live the equivalent of two (or more) life times? And when you’re about to die anyway, what have you got to lose? . The cell then dehydrates and collapses in on itself.

The second problem one must think about is what if the company goes bankrupt before you can be revived. It is far easier (and cheaper) to preserve only the head. To achieve the very low temperatures required, the bloodless body is immersed in a sort of giant thermos flask containing liquid nitrogen. If this is true why does China currently only allow couples to have two children and require that they obtain a license before doing so rather than simply allowing them to have as many as they want? I guess what I am trying to say is that areas of this world already are overpopulated. Cryonics is specifically using cold temperatures to freeze human beings that have just been declared legally dead for possible repair and revival in the future. Cryonicists believe that it may be possible to clone another body from the genetic codes found in the cells of the head. Cryogenics is the general branch of physics and technology that deals with cold temperatures. 6A)

There is a compelling reason to be suspended, however. At this point Alcor may be giving people false hope without the ability to ever revive them.

Conventional freezing of tissues and organs is quite destructive. The world may not even be recognizable to a person that's been frozen for so many years because they may have to get used to the new laws. Alcor claims that in the future they will be able to put miniature robots in the human body that will be able to make the repairs to the damaged cells (Alcor, 22).

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