Tuesday, March 9, 2010

How To Reboot Your Corpse

Photo: Could you go on ice now and be revived around 2050? iStockphoto

From Discovery News:

Thousands of bodies are already cryonically frozen, waiting for faster computers and medical advances that will undo their cause of death.

What is death? Over the centuries, the line dividing life and death has moved from the cessation first of breathing, then of the heartbeat, and finally of brain activity. But cryogenic methods first contemplated in science fiction may push the line even further. The idea is to freeze legally dead people in liquid nitrogen in the hope of regenerating them at some future date.

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