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Old 07-09-2002, 09:43 PM  
edmo
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I would get frozen. I think that with the rapid increases in medical technology and understanding of how brain/body work that being "brought back to life" from suspended animation will eventually be accomplished. Simple things like sperm are frozen, thawed and used all the time in the medical community. Scientists have suspended fish and brought them back. One of the big problems with cryogenics is that different parts need to freeze before other parts so they don't destroy other tissue/cells. I would imagine that with nanotechnology it will soon be possible to make specialized molecules to overcome this problem. There's also been some amazing work done with monkey head transplants. And cloning is probably going to be perfected at some point as well. Implying that when these various fields get reasonably developed it would be feasible to thaw out your brain, transplant it onto an exact clone of your body and then regrow connective tissues. The benefit is worth the cost/risk.

The Navy Program:
http://www.safar.pitt.edu/suspend.html

Monkey Head Transplant:
http://www.cosmiverse.com/science04110105.html

Differentiated Freezing Problem:
http://communications.uvic.ca/Ring/9.../freezing.html

Fish in Suspended Animation:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci...00/1388622.stm

Stem Cells to Reconnect Nerve Tissue:
http://www.namiscc.org/newsletters/D...l-research.htm
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