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 Cryogenically frozen brains will be 'woken up' and transplanted in donor bodies within three years, claims surgeon

Although many experts are sceptical that huge organs like the brain can be thawed without damage, Prof Canavero said he believes the first frozen head could soon be resurrected.

 Cryogenics: The Pros and Cons

Cryogenics has many concerns: moral, ethical, physical, and many more. The government has not yet decided if they will provide funding for this department of scientific research or not. These are just a few of the pros and cons of cryogenics that you will need to take into consideration if you want to be cryopreserved.

 Nano Nonsense & Cryonics

Cryonicists believe that people can be frozen immediately after death and reanimated later when the cure for what ailed them is found. To see the flaw in this system, thaw out a can of frozen strawberries.

 The False Science of Cryonics

What the nervous system of the roundworm tells us about freezing brains and reanimating human minds.

 The Neuroscience of Immortality

Some neuroscientists believe it may be possible, within a century or so, for our minds to continue to function after death — in a computer or some other kind of simulation. Others say it’s theoretically impossible, or impossibly far off in the future.

 The Quest For Immortality

How's this for an offer you can't refuse: how would you like to live say, 400 or 500 years, or even more and all of them in perfect health? It's both a Utopian and a nightmare scenario but there are those who say it is well within the realm of possibility.

 Why Cryonics Makes Sense

Most people who know what cryonics is think it means getting frozen. It doesn’t. It means getting vitrified.

 Why Freezing Yourself Is a Terrible Way to Achieve Immortality

What happens after we die? It's a question that has plagued the human mind since we first developed the concept of "death." The search for an answer—and, more importantly, a means of circumventing its effects—has encited organized religion and served to shape one of the foundations of human culture.

Articles of Interest

A Dying Young Woman’s Hope in Cryonics and a Future

Cancer claimed Kim Suozzi at age 23, but she chose to have her brain preserved with the dream that neuroscience might one day revive her mind.

Chemopreservation: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

At this time, cryonics constitutes the most popular and credible method of long term stabilization of a critically ill person in anticipation of treatment by future medicine. But cryonics does not exhaust the options available to those who question contemporary views on death. One alternative is to use chemical fixation to stabilize the structure of the brain. Throughout the history of cryonics there have been recurrent discussions whether chemical fixation can be considered a credible, or even superior alternative, to cryonics.

Cryobiology: Low temperature studies of biological systems

Low temperature biology, or cryobiology, has the possibility, and may very easily and very drastically affect everyones' lives in the future. Through rapidly approaching cryobiological medical procedures and techniques, the presence of intense ethical issues may play an important role in many everyday decisions that do not now exist.

Future News

Predictions, extrapolations, futurology, cutting-edge tech news, science fact and science fiction: emerging news that will shape the world of tomorrow.

How To Live Forever

Wexler explores the viewpoints of delightfully unusual characters alongside those of health, fitness and life-extension experts in this engaging new documentary, which challenges our notions of youth and aging with comic poignancy. Begun as a study in life-extension, How To Live Forever evolves into a thought-provoking examination of what truly gives life meaning.

Resources

Alcor

Mission: The preservation of individual lives, to be sought through the following prioritized list of fundamentals: 1.Maintain the current patients in biostasis. 2.Place current and future members into biostasis (when and if needed). 3.Eventually restore to health and reintegrate into society all patients in Alcor's care...

Cryonics Institute

The Cryonics Institute is a non-profit membership organization made up of people seeking to pursue cryonics' "Prospect of Immortality" for themselves and their families. Our objective is not profit, but to help our members who choose cryopreservation to have an opportunity live again to see a brighter future.

The Cryonics Society

Everyone knows what cryonics is -- or at least they think they do. That's the problem. Cryonics is a new and emerging medical technology. What it hopes to do one day is keep people with illnesses from getting worse and dying. How? By placing them in a low-temperature coma and caring for them till help can arrive. Even if that help takes quite a while.