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What do you think of cryonics?

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Cryonics (often mistakenly called “cryogenics”) is the practice of cryopreserving humans or animals that can no longer be sustained by contemporary medicine until resuscitation may be possible in the future. (Wikipedia)

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5 Responses to “What do you think of cryonics?”

  1. Iain N on February 16th, 2008 1:02 am

    Waste of time and money.

  2. Rawlyn on February 19th, 2008 1:17 am

    It’s a technology that may or may not work. I don’t think it’s anything to get excited about either way. I can’t see many negative implications of it, but I can’t exactly see many positives either, except maybe the implications for long-distance space travel.

    Rawlyn.

  3. Lukas on February 21st, 2008 12:53 pm

    Cryonics is a difficult subject to discuss in a real world setting. Cryonics hasn’t really changed that much over the years. A lot of doctors and researchers don’t take Cryonics all that seriously. Even science-fiction novels don’t use Cryonics in their story lines.

    The major problem is that people are made of 80% water. Freezing people, as in Cryonics, usually causes localized or even general cell damage. Research has also shown that when a subject is either put into cryonic sleep or removed from it, the body experiences physical shock which is often fatal. Not enough research has been done to make Cryonics viable.

  4. GeLo'14 on February 23rd, 2008 2:27 am

    Isn’t this the one which preserves cavemen and other prehistoric/historic creatures in cartoons? Well, this is helpful for those kind of operations, i guess it can help preserve extinct organisms so that an example of it would be known in the future.. but do scientists cryopreserve cavemen and other beings? ahh, think not but i wonder why cartoons made it.. like the ones in the movie, archie and jughead, when another group of cavemen w/c have resemblances to jughead, betty and veronica still exists. but i think they still preserve bones, cells or artifacts…

  5. Wally M on February 25th, 2008 6:11 pm

    It’s a developing science. As for crystallization, it has been the major bugaboo for cryonics, but research in the field has been trying to decrease the amount of crystallization by using perfusates…running various chemicals (generally not terribly harmful to the body) through the body and *then* freezing the body. These chemicals prefuse the cells and lower the water content in them, and so when they are frozen, theres not enough water to crystallize.

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