david s asked:


If cryogenics were made illeagal. what would happen to those who were already frozen? Do you think we should thaw them out and the sentence them for their crime?

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3 Responses to “Cryogentics should be illeagal?”

1. angie h on July 30th, 2008 1:56 pm

   Unfortunately, with our current technology, thawing them out would kill them.

   I’m all for voluntary and personal cryogenic chambers. In the U.S., involuntary cryogenic chambers I would think would be found to be cruel and unusual and unconstitutional as a form of punishment.

   But I’m no expert on the law, so it’s just a guess.

2. Al Bundy on August 1st, 2008 12:11 am

   You can’t punish someone who’s already dead. If there were a way to bring them back though it is usually the case that people cannot be punished for commiting crimes that were not illegal when they happened. Since it was legal when the person decided to have themselves frozen, there was no intent to break the law on their part.

3. Nobody on August 3rd, 2008 9:37 pm

   your question is absurd. No – we should not “thaw them out and sentence them for their crime.” At this point people can not come back from Cryogenic temperatures.

   not all cryogenics should be illegal. i have been in Low Temperature Physics/Cryogenics for many years and without it, we would know nothing about Astronomy.

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