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Cryonics "Hope or Hopeless"

Cryonic suspension is an experimental process whereby patients who can no longer be kept alive by today’s medical capabilities are preserved at freezing temperatures for medical treatment in the future. For example a person who has recently died, due to an incurable disease, might decide to have their body, or just their head, preserved by means of cryonics. Then when science finds a cure for the disease the body would be resuscitated back to life, and then treated for the disease. This is similar to the process currently being used by medical technology by means of organ transplants. Where organs are preserved (frozen) and then thawed and transplanted into human beings. Although the process of preserving the organ is very similar, the process thereafter is completely different, and much more technologically complicated. Plus, an organ cannot really be compared to a human brain. The brain thinks and controls emotions, behavior and memory. An organ (such as a kidney or a heart...

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