cryonics
Sign in to savethumb|Technicians preparing a body for cryopreservation in 1985
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Cryonics is the practice of freezing human bodies (or sometimes just the brain) immediately after death in hopes that future medical technology might be able to revive them and cure whatever caused their death. People pursue cryonics because they believe advances in science could eventually make it possible to restore life to preserved individuals, though this remains highly speculative and unproven.
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- Conceptual basis
- Cryonics in practice
- Obstacles to success
- Preservation damage
- Revival
- Legal issues
- Ethics
- History
- Demographics
- Reception
- In fiction
- In popular culture
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thumb|Technicians preparing a body for cryopreservation in 1985
Cryonics (from kryos, meaning "cold") is the low-temperature freezing (usually at ) and storage of human remains in the hope that resurrection may be possible in the future. Cryonics is regarded with skepticism by the mainstream scientific community. It is generally viewed as a pseudoscience, and its practice has been characterized as quackery.