Cryogenics

[flano]

Is cryogenics possible? to what extent?

thank you for your time

[mystress]

We will never know until Defrost Time!!

[MargeB]

Didn't one of the first labs run out of money and all of their clientelle defrost?

Did you see 'Vanilla Sky'?

I'm sure we're not far off getting it right. Problem is, how do you freeze things without the water in the cells rupturing the cell wall?

There are a few animals that can survive freezing completely (some frogs?) and everything stops, and then they defrost and come back to life. They have a special chemical in their body which allows this. I think the oil industry tried to synthesize it for use in pipelines for cold countries. Maybe if we worked out how to get this into humans.

Question is...would you want this?

And an overpopulated planet with a bunch of people in freezers waiting to come back? PLEASE REMEMBER TO DEFROST YOUR RELATIVES THOROUGHLY BEFORE REINTRODUCING INTO SOCIETY.

[Davidgrey]

 

The question is " Is cryogenics possible" and quite simply the answer is yes. Cryogenics means exposing a recently deceased person to liquid nitrogen in order to minimise decomposition. That's been succesfully done a number of times. The reason people pay good money to do so is because they believe that in the future science will solve two problems.

1. That future science will "fix" whatever they died of and...

2. That they can be succesfully resuscitated minimising any effects of being chilled at absolute zero.

The question should be is the above possible??