keyword
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38425091/cryonics-traps-and-transformations
#1
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Daniel Story
Cryonics is the practice of cryopreserving the bodies or brains of legally dead individuals with the hope that these individuals will be reanimated in the future. A standard argument for cryonics says that cryonics is prudentially justified despite uncertainty about its success because at worst it will leave you no worse off than you otherwise would have been had you not chosen cryonics, and at best it will leave you much better off than you otherwise would have been. Thus, it is a good, no-risk bet; in game-theoretic terms, cryonics is a weakly dominant strategy relative to refraining from utilizing cryonics...
February 29, 2024: Bioethics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37954113/cryopreservation-and-current-legal-problems-seeking-and-selling-immortality
#2
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Alexandra Mullock, Elizabeth Chloe Romanis
Cryonics, the 'freezing' of the human body after death in the hope of reanimation in the future, remains a remote possibility, and yet it is becoming a more popular choice. There has been much academic discussion of the ethics of cryopreservation; however, the legal problems have received little attention. There are, however, several potential current conflicts that might arise, as was illustrated by the case of JS in England, in which a 14-year-old girl who sought cryopreservation against her father's wishes...
2023: Journal of Law and the Biosciences
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37451855/mourning-the-frozen-considering-the-relational-implications-of-cryonics
#3
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Robin Hillenbrink, Christopher Simon Wareham
Cryonics is the preservation of legally dead human bodies at the temperature of liquid nitrogen in the hope that future technologies will be able to revive them. In philosophical debates surrounding this practice, arguments often focus on prudential implications of cryopreservation, or moral arguments on a societal level. In this paper, we claim that this debate is incomplete, since it does not take into account a significant relational concern about cryonics. Specifically, we argue that attention should be paid to the potential implications of cryopreservation for the mourning processes of surviving loved ones...
July 14, 2023: Journal of Medical Ethics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37381023/cryonics-euthanasia-and-the-doctrine-of-double-effect
#4
REVIEW
Gabriel Andrade, Maria Campo Redondo
In 1989, Thomas Donaldson requested the California courts to allow physicians to hasten his death. Donaldson had been diagnosed with brain cancer, and he desired to die in order to cryonically preserve his brain, so as to stop its further deterioration. This case elicits an important question: is this a case of euthanasia? In this article, we examine the traditional criteria of death, and contrast it with the information-theoretic criterion. If this criterion is accepted, we posit that Donaldson's case would have been cryocide, but not euthanasia...
June 29, 2023: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine: PEHM
https://read.qxmd.com/read/35754544/cryopreservation-of-animals-and-cryonics-current-technical-progress-difficulties-and-possible-research-directions
#5
REVIEW
Marlene Davis Ekpo, George Frimpong Boafo, Suleiman Shafiu Gambo, Yuying Hu, Xiangjian Liu, Jingxian Xie, Songwen Tan
The basis of cryonics or medical cryopreservation is to safely store a legally dead subject until a time in the future when technology and medicine will permit reanimation after eliminating the disease or cause of death. Death has been debunked as an event occurring after cardiac arrest to a process where interjecting its progression can allow for reversal when feasible. Cryonics technology artificially halts further damages and injury by restoring respiration and blood circulation, and rapidly reducing temperature...
2022: Frontiers in Veterinary Science
https://read.qxmd.com/read/35747677/the-interactive-factors-contributing-to-fear-of-death
#6
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mahdi Rezapour
Despite the importance of the topic of death, a limited comprehensive statistical analysis conducted highlighting the complex association between fear of death and various variables. Thus, this study is conducted to account for the possible complexity by considering all interaction terms after reducing the dimensionality of a dataset by means of recursive feature elimination, followed by the removal of the multi-collinear variables. The results highlighted, for instance, although being married, older and female offset the negative associations of fear of death, their impacts are multiplicative...
2022: Frontiers in Psychology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/35352991/the-cryonic-refugee-appropriate-analogy-or-confusing-rhetoric
#7
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Richard B Gibson
Cryopreservation presents the possibility of circumventing irreversible death through the body's extreme cooling. Once cooled, this 'cryon' is then stored at sub-zero temperatures until medical knowledge enables curative revival. However, the possibility of the post-cryopreserved supporting themselves, both economically and socially, is dubious; they will likely need state assistance. What a future society owes the post-cryopreserved, and why, remains unclear. One potential solution is to consider revivals as comparable to refugees, with the latter fleeing spatially and the former fleeing temporally...
June 2022: New Bioethics: a Multidisciplinary Journal of Biotechnology and the Body
https://read.qxmd.com/read/33523374/cryonics-science-or-religion
#8
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Simon Dein
Cryonics involves the low-temperature freezing of human corpses in the hope that they will one day be reanimated. Its advocates see it as a medical treatment but as in any medical procedure, this presupposes some scientific evidence. This paper examines the scientific basis of this technology and argues that cryonics is based upon assertions which have never been (and potentially can never be empirically demonstrated) scientifically. After providing a general overview of cryogenic preservation, I discuss how advocates of this technology have conceptualized death and more specifically their notion of information-theoretic death...
August 2022: Journal of Religion and Health
https://read.qxmd.com/read/32484027/cryonics-takes-another-big-step-toward-the-mainstream
#9
EDITORIAL
Aubrey D N J de Grey
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
June 2020: Rejuvenation Research
https://read.qxmd.com/read/32340558/cryopreservation-of-a-human-brain-and-its-experimental-correlate-in-rats
#10
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Martina Canatelli-Mallat, Francisco Lascaray, Maria Entraigues-Abramson, Enrique L Portiansky, Néstor Blamaceda, Gustavo R Morel, Rodolfo G Goya
Several countries have established self-help cryonics groups whose mission is to cryopreserve human bodies or brains after legal death and ship them to cryonics organizations. The objective of this study was to report the first case of human brain cryopreservation in Argentina and complementary experiments in rats. After legal death, the body of a 78-year-old Caucasian woman was transported to a funeral home where her head was submitted to intracarotid perfusion with 5 L cold physiologic saline followed by the same volume of cold saline containing 13% dimethyl sulfoxide and 13% glycerol...
June 8, 2020: Rejuvenation Research
https://read.qxmd.com/read/32037641/cryonics-for-all
#11
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Tena Thau
In fascinating recent work, some philosophers have argued that it would be morally permissible and prudentially rational to sign up for cryonics-if you can afford the price tag of the procedure. In this paper I ask: why not share the elixir of extended life with everyone? Should governments financially support, positively encourage, or even require people to undergo cryonics? From a general principle of beneficence, I construct a formal argument for cryonics promotion policies. I consider the objection that a subset of these policies would violate autonomy, but I argue that-to the contrary-considerations of autonomy weigh in their favour...
September 2020: Bioethics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/29077877/cryonics-in-the-courtroom-which-interests-whose-interests
#12
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Richard Huxtable
In an apparent international first, the High Court has allowed a terminally ill 14-year-old to be cryopreserved after her death. The patient, JS, requested this, as she hoped one day to be reanimated and cured. Jackson J focused on the welfare (or best interests) of JS as she approached the end of her life and particularly on her (apparently) competent wish to be cryopreserved. I consider the interests involved in a decision to undergo cryonics, specifically exploring which interests and whose interests are engaged...
August 1, 2018: Medical Law Review
https://read.qxmd.com/read/27028046/cryonic-preservation-of-a-patient-dying-from-head-trauma
#13
LETTER
Leslie Hunter-Johnson, Jonathan Von Koenig, Warren L Wheeler
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
May 2016: Journal of Palliative Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/25717141/the-case-for-cryonics
#14
REVIEW
Ole Martin Moen
Cryonics is the low temperature preservation of people who can no longer be sustained by contemporary medicine in the hope that future medicine will make it possible to revive them and restore their health. A speculative practice at the outer edge of science, cryonics is often viewed with suspicion. In this paper I defend two theses. I first argue that there is a small, yet non-negligible, chance that cryonics is technically feasible. I make the case for this by reference to what we know about death and cryobiology, and what we can expect of future nanorobotics...
August 2015: Journal of Medical Ethics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/24499638/attitudes-and-acceptance-toward-the-technology-of-cryonics-in-germany
#15
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Stephanie Kaiser, Dominik Gross, Jens Lohmeier, Michael Rosentreter, Jürgen Raschke
Objectives: This study explores the awareness and the degree of acceptance of the idea of the medical technology cryonics-the freezing of a corpse to revive it in the future-among German citizens. Methods: Data were collected on the basis of a representatively weighted online survey of 1,000 people aged between 16 and 69 years and resident in the Federal Republic of Germany. Results: Forty-seven percent stated that they had already heard of cryonics; 22 percent could imagine having their bodies cryonized after their deaths...
February 5, 2014: International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care
https://read.qxmd.com/read/22533424/vascular-and-neuronal-ischemic-damage-in-cryonics-patients
#16
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Benjamin P Best
Cryonics technology seeks to cryopreserve the anatomical basis of the mind so that future medicine can restore legally dead cryonics patients to life, youth, and health. Most cryonics patients experience varying degrees of ischemia and reperfusion injury. Neurons can survive ischemia and reperfusion injury more than is generally believed, but blood vessels are more vulnerable, and such injury can impair perfusion of vitrifying cryoprotectant solution intended to eliminate ice formation in the brain. Forms of vascular and neuronal damage are reviewed, along with means of mitigating that damage...
April 2012: Rejuvenation Research
https://read.qxmd.com/read/21695839/the-iceman-what-the-leader-of-the-cryonics-movement-is-really-preserving
#17
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jill Lepore
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
January 2010: New Yorker
https://read.qxmd.com/read/20455144/extreme-life-extension-investing-in-cryonics-for-the-long-long-term
#18
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Tiffany Romain
This article explores American conceptualizations of finance, the future, the limits of biological time, and the possibilities of biotechnoscience through an investigation of the social world of cryonics-the freezing of the dead with the hope of future revival. I describe some of the cosmologies of life, death, time, and the management of the future that circulate within cryonics communities, and I draw out relationships between cryonics practices and discourses and more common forms of personal future management prevalent within American neoliberal capitalism...
April 2010: Medical Anthropology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/19788649/cryoethics-seeking-life-after-death
#19
JOURNAL ARTICLE
David Shaw
Cryonic suspension is a relatively new technology that offers those who can afford it the chance to be 'frozen' for future revival when they reach the ends of their lives. This paper will examine the ethical status of this technology and whether its use can be justified. Among the arguments against using this technology are: it is 'against nature', and would change the very concept of death; no friends or family of the 'freezee' will be left alive when he is revived; the considerable expense involved for the freezee and the future society that will revive him; the environmental cost of maintaining suspension; those who wish to use cryonics might not live life to the full because they would economize in order to afford suspension; and cryonics could lead to premature euthanasia in order to maximize chances of success...
November 2009: Bioethics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/18321197/scientific-justification-of-cryonics-practice
#20
REVIEW
Benjamin P Best
Very low temperatures create conditions that can preserve tissue for centuries, possibly including the neurological basis of the human mind. Through a process called vitrification, brain tissue can be cooled to cryogenic temperatures without ice formation. Damage associated with this process is theoretically reversible in the same sense that rejuvenation is theoretically possible by specific foreseeable technology. Injury to the brain due to stopped blood flow is now known to result from a complex series of processes that take much longer to run to completion than the 6 min limit of ordinary resuscitation technology...
April 2008: Rejuvenation Research
keyword
keyword
47629
1
2
Fetch more papers »
Fetching more papers... Fetching...
Remove bar
Read by QxMD icon Read
×

Save your favorite articles in one place with a free QxMD account.

×

Search Tips

Use Boolean operators: AND/OR

diabetic AND foot
diabetes OR diabetic

Exclude a word using the 'minus' sign

Virchow -triad

Use Parentheses

water AND (cup OR glass)

Add an asterisk (*) at end of a word to include word stems

Neuro* will search for Neurology, Neuroscientist, Neurological, and so on

Use quotes to search for an exact phrase

"primary prevention of cancer"
(heart or cardiac or cardio*) AND arrest -"American Heart Association"

We want to hear from doctors like you!

Take a second to answer a survey question.