History of Cryonics

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Cryonics is an area of medical study that centers around cooling patients to the point where molecular physical decay completely stops, in the expectation that scientific and medical procedures currently being developed will be able to revive them and restore them to good health later on. A patient held in such a state is said to be in [cryonic suspension]?.

Cryonics is the practice of freezing whole organisms at near absolute zero, where metabolism and decay completely stop, for preservation and possible revival. It is expected that scientific and medical procedures being developed now or those in the future will be able to revive such organisms and restore them to good health. A patient held in such a state is said to be in [cryonic suspension]?. Unlike the common medical practice of preserving simple tissues (called cryobiology?), cryonics is generally viewed with skepticism by most scientists and doctors today. It is believed by many that restoration of cryonically suspended patients will require speculative technologies far beyond what is available today, such as nanotechnology.

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Books of interest:

Books of interest: [The Prospect of Immortality]? by [Robert Ettinger]?.

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[The Prospect of Immortality]? Areas of Interest: Nanotechnology See also: Interstellar travel

See also: Interstellar travel.