Advantages of Cryonics

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Advantages The obvious advantage of cryonics is the extraordinary rate of progress in medical technology. Today’s Illnesses that were once mass killers such as measles and the flu are now little more than nuisances. Ettinger pointed out, the statement “the patient is dead” was merely equivalent to the statement “technology isn’t presently good enough to revive him”. The “dead” patient of 50 years ago might be revivable today. Similarly the “dead” patient of today might be revivable 50 years in the future. Cryonic organizations are growing rapidly, with several hundred people signed up to undergo the procedure of freezing and several more who already have, it’s becoming more and more popular. Teams of technicians stand by ready to rush to the site of an impending demise and begin cooling the body moments after pronouncement of legal death. The teams are dedicated to preserve your body right away and to get the body safely stored. Many biological specimens have been cryopreserved, stored at liquid nitrogen temperature where all decay ceases, and revived; these include whole insects, vinegar eels, many types of human tissue including brain tissue, human embryos which have later grown into healthy children, and a few small mammalian organs. Before it was never thought that a human could undergo the procedure, but today many already have and the hope of reviving humans seems likely down the road. Recently a new advancement has been with nanotechnology that could be the solution. Nanotechnology is the manipulation of individual atoms or molecules, eventually to build or repair virtually any physical object, including human cells and biological tissue. “Imagine a medical device that travels through the human body to seek out and destroy small clusters of cancerous cells before they can spread. Or a box no larger than a sugar cube that contains the entire contents
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