Cryonics on ABC News

Excerpt from ABC News about cryonics. Cryonics Institute is also storing all American Cryonics Society members who are currently in suspension. For more info, see http://AmericanCryonics.org

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News & Politics

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• Cryonics
• Body
• Freezing

[piccachi9498]

well isn't Cyronics the same as getting a heart transplant or something like that... Because when you switch hearts then you live longer.. When you switch bodies isn't it the same? Because people say when God calls you you should go... But when you agree to get a heart transplant isn't that the same as refusing to die when your time has come? IT's the same with Cyronics isn't it?

[AmericanCryonicsSoc]

@piccachi9498 It's kind of the same idea. We consider both medical procedures designed to prolong life. After cryonic suspension, you may or may not get a new body. If yes, it will probably be a clone of your old body, perhaps with some improvements. Heart transplants are accepted, and are saving lives now. Cryonics is yet unproven, and won't be until the first "cryonaut" is revived.

[BradyHazy]

Sorry for starting the discussion I understand now that I have to respect ur point of view it was wrong for posting it on comment page thank you DKO526 for helping me understand that you can be Christian and be into

Cryogenics. And by the way cyberbully was a typo.

[AmericanCryonicsSoc]

@BradyHazy I accept your apology. Not a misspell; Cryogenics is a valid word, but means general science of cold temperatures. Cryonics is a new word which refers specifically to preserving the legally deceased in hopes of reviving them someday using future science.

[AmericanCryonicsSoc]

You're the one who started this discussion. If you want to call someone names, better learn to spell them first. It's cyberbully.

[BradyHazy]

Plus why would you want to live forever life is horrible right now I rather be up their with god

[AmericanCryonicsSoc]

@BradyHazy Maybe your life is horrible. Mine is rather pleasant. If you want to "go to God," I wouldn't dream of trying to stop you.

[AmericanCryonicsSoc]

@BradyHazy Ignorance and superstition. How do you know what God wants? Or that He even exists? If God wanted us to fly He would have given us wings. I don't care what God wants. I want to live as long as possible.

[forrestmunden]

At 2:47 He sounds like an echo from the past..We are the center of the world, the world is flat, witches exist, we will never transplant hearts, never transfuse blood, never transplant organs, generate cells, grow hearts, grow organs..and of course this jackass's comment. Some of us just can't open our minds, and the rest of us simply move on in our exploration.

[DK0526]

@piccachi9498 weither you believe in God or not is irrelevant to heart transplants and cryonics. However, Perhaps God gave us the intelligence to create and accept transplants and cryonics. So that accepting them is not refusing god but accepting the gift of extended life. My God wants me to embrace live not death. No one knows when it is thier time to die so the wisest course of action is to attempt to live long and healthy by what ever means provided to you. Cryonics thus makes sense.

[DK0526]

...just as an Atheist or a Christian can agree that CPR is a good practice and medical attension to the sick and needy is a warrented and worthy goal. Cryonics is the same in this regard you dont need to agree on everything to see that it is a worthy and humane endeavor.

[DK0526]

@aprox23 I have found that it is easier to relate to people on the areas of common interest such as cryonics and preserving life rather then to try and change or ridicule thier fundamental belief systems. For Instance, a liberal and a conservative can agree that they value thier own personal liberty. Neither wants to be pushed around by a fat cat CEO or a fat cat gov Beaurocrat. There is common ground and universal understanding amoung people with otherwise different philosophies.

[DK0526]

@BradyHazy I am glad you can respect the cryonics point of view. People who believe in and understand the science of cryonics come in many different stripes...from Christian to Atheist to everything in between. From libertarian to socialist and everything in between as well but they all agree on the logical rational of cryonics. Its much like the idea of CPR and defibulation. When you need CPR, the rescue workers political or relgious affiliation or yours for that matter is simply a non issue.

[aprox23]

@bradyhazy I pity people like you. Next time you telepathically communicate with the "creator" of the universe ask him/her/it for a individual mind.

[aprox23]

Why do people follow a book written 2,000 years ago in the bronze age? In which it is full of many contradictions, inconsistencies, inaccuracies, flaws and errors? The Bible is wrong about many things. The way it describes the Earth is laughable and the way it describes rain is so laughable that it's actually sad. Somethings I wonder about the human race and how the pillars of our wisdom have crumbled into the dust, time and time again.

[xXxMcAngelxXx]

This is amazing!

[Clone683]

3000 A.D here i come :)