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=== Cryonics === [[Cryonics]] is the [[Cryopreservation|low-temperature freezing]] (usually at {{cvt|β196|C|F K|disp=or}}) of a human corpse or severed head, with the hope that resurrection may be possible in the [[future]].<ref>{{cite news|last=McKie|first=Robin|title=Cold facts about cryonics|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2002/jul/14/medicalscience.science|access-date=1 December 2013|newspaper=[[The Observer]]|date=13 July 2002|quote="Cryonics, which began in the Sixties, is the freezing β usually in liquid nitrogen β of human beings who have been legally declared dead. The aim of this process is to keep such individuals in a state of refrigerated limbo so that it may become possible in the [[future]] to resuscitate them, cure them of the condition that killed them, and then restore them to functioning life in an era when medical science has triumphed over the activities of the Grim Reaper."|archive-date=8 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170708232125/https://www.theguardian.com/education/2002/jul/14/medicalscience.science|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="guardian keep cool">{{cite news|title=Dying is the last thing anyone wants to do β so keep cool and carry on|url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/oct/11/cryonics-booms-in-us|access-date=21 February 2016|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=10 October 2015|archive-date=3 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170703042900/https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/oct/11/cryonics-booms-in-us|url-status=live}}</ref> Cryonics is regarded with [[skepticism]] within the mainstream scientific community. It is generally viewed as a [[pseudoscience]],<ref name=jk>{{cite news |title=Mainstream science is frosty over keeping the dead on ice |author=Steinbeck RL |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |date=29 September 2002 |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2002-09-29-0209290429-story.html |archive-date=17 July 2019 |access-date=18 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190717153237/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2002-09-29-0209290429-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and has been characterized as [[quackery]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2016/11/18/justice-cryogenically-delayed-is-justice-denied/|title=Justice Cryogenically Delayed is Justice Denied?|last=Hoppe|first=Nils|date=2016-11-18|website=BMJ Journal of Medical Ethics blog|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-06-24|quote=The mere fact that we feel the promises made by the cryopreservation industry amount to a most grievous form of quackery ...|archive-date=26 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326171723/https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2016/11/18/justice-cryogenically-delayed-is-justice-denied/|url-status=live}}; {{Cite news|title=Could He Live to 2150?|last1=Zimmer|first1=Carl|date=October 2007|work=Best Life|quote=Quack watch: The following controversial treatments are all being touted as antiaging miracle cures.|last2=Hamilton|first2=David}}; {{cite book|author=Harold Schechter|title=The Whole Death Catalog: A Lively Guide to the Bitter End|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fpozwi3nyA8C&pg=PA206|date=2009|publisher=Random House Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-345-51251-2|page=206}}; {{Cite web|url=https://thebaffler.com/salvos/everybody-freeze-pein|title=Everybody Freeze!|last=Pein|first=Corey|date=2016-03-08|website=The Baffler|language=en-US|access-date=2019-06-24|archive-date=28 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190428121424/https://thebaffler.com/salvos/everybody-freeze-pein|url-status=live}}; {{Cite magazine|url=https://harpers.org/archive/2014/12/heads-will-roll/3/|title=Heads Will Roll|last=Chiasson|first=Dan|date=December 2014|magazine=Harper's Magazine|access-date=2019-06-24|issn=0017-789X|archive-date=24 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190624164818/https://harpers.org/archive/2014/12/heads-will-roll/3/|url-status=live}}; {{Cite web|url=https://www.salon.com/2012/06/24/the_mansion_of_happiness_matters_of_life_and_death/|title="The Mansion of Happiness": Matters of life and death|last=Miller|first=Laura|date=2012-06-24|website=Salon|language=en|access-date=2019-06-24|archive-date=24 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190624164818/https://www.salon.com/2012/06/24/the_mansion_of_happiness_matters_of_life_and_death/|url-status=live}}; {{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/02/books/review/strange-bodies-by-marcel-theroux.html|title=Sparks of Life|last=Almond|first=Steve|date=2014-02-28|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-06-24|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=24 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190624202238/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/02/books/review/strange-bodies-by-marcel-theroux.html|url-status=live}}; {{Cite book|title=The Skeptics Dictionary: A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions|last=Carroll|first=Robert Todd|publisher=Wiley|year=2003|isbn=0471272426|quote=A business based on little more than hope for developments that can be imagined by science is quackery. There is little reason to believe that the promises of cryonics will ever be fulfilled.}}</ref>
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