Cryonics

Current Context : A cryonics company has frozen its first client in Australia in the hope of bringing him back to life in the future.

ABOUT CRYONICS:

• Cryonics is the practice of freezing an individual who has died, with the object of reviving the individual sometime in the future.
• Objective : It is an effort to save lives by using temperatures so cold that a person beyond help by today’s medicine can be preserved for decades or centuries until a future medical technology can restore that person to full health.
• The word cryonics is derived from the Greek krýos, meaning “icy cold.” preparation for cryonic preservation.

A person that is held in such a state is called a “cryopreserved patient”, because Cryonicists (the advocates of cryonics) do not regard the cryopreserved person as really dead.