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"Freezing your brain is as scientific as stitching corpse-body-parts together to create a living human." Mmmm, not sure this is a good analogy. While cryonics
by equalarrow 13y ago
"Freezing your brain is as scientific as stitching corpse-body-parts together to create a living human."
Mmmm, not sure this is a good analogy.
While cryonics isn't proven science yet, we have frozen dogs, pigs, and other animals and revived them after a few days. Granted, this isn't a human, but if I am ever in a situation where the end is there in front of me with a little bit of time to contemplate it, I'd rather take the frozen brain/body route.
- ggreer 13y agoWhile cryonics isn't proven science yet, we have frozen dogs, pigs, and other animals and revived them after a few days. I'm sorry, you are mistaken. The largest reversibly-cryopreserved chunk of mammal so far has been a rabbit kidney. The kidney was cryopreserved, re-warmed, and transplanted back into the rabbit. The untreated kidney was removed. The rabbit recovered and survived until the researchers euthanized it for autopsy 6 weeks later. Autopsy showed some areas where the cryoprotectant hadn't reached, so the kidney wasn't perfectly healthy. The whole paper is at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2781097/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2781097/