How To Use Cryonics In A Sentence
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Mr. Ettinger's ideas, which he popularized in a 1963 book, "The Prospect of Immortality," spawned what some refer to as the cryonics movement, though by most accounts it is a small endeavor: a scattering of enterprises around the country with dues-paying customers totaling a few thousand, a few hundred of whom have actually been deep-frozen.
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I still believe that's true, but it seems the day might come when cryonics is medically prudent.
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Vitrification, nanotechnology and cryonics may soon make a second lease of life possible.
Times, Sunday Times
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I am reminded of cryonics companies, which you pay to keep your body frozen in a tank of liquid nitrogen forever.
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The story, accusations that people who had their bodies frozen at extremely low temperatures -- a practice called cryonics -- may have been abused by a company that stored their remains.
CNN Transcript Oct 9, 2009
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Corvi-Mora, SE11, Fri to 31 JulSSMurray Ballard's The Prospect Of Immortality is the outcome of five years of photographic investigation into the cryonics industry, the technique of deep-freezing a human corpse in the belief or hope that future scientific advances might enable it to be brought back to life.
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Cryonicists divide the world into two groups, those who are experimenting with cryonics by being frozen vs. those who just die and are buried.
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The process, known as cryonics, is conducted with the hope that someday scientists will be able to bring the subjects back to life.
Undefined
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I'm lining up a cryonics team that will be there as soon as I'm declared dead.
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In 1976, after retiring from teaching, he founded the Cryonics Institute, adopting the word "cryonics" from cryogenics, a field of physics that studies how materials behave at very low temperatures.
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This was taken at a cryonics facility in Phoenix, Arizona, called the Alcor Life Extension Foundation.
Photographer Murray Ballard's best shot
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One problem facing cryonics enthusiasts is that no animal larger than a microscopic human embryo or a tiny tardigrade - an insect that measures only a couple hundred microns across - has yet been frozen and successfully revived.
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Have yourself frozen by cryonics, a near death experience that should settle once and for all any doubts about the afterlife.
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Unlike other cryonic organizations, Mr. Ettinger's Cryonics Institute freezes only entire bodies, not just heads as some organizations do, at reduced cost.
Pursuing Immortality, He Followed a Frozen Path
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Most of them live in California, their passions are life extension, body sculpting, cryonics, smart drinks, funny handshakes, and a new philosophy they call ‘transhumanism’.
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BLITZER: Well, without getting into the specifics of Ted Williams, which I understand you won't discuss, you can't discuss, would it be normal, though, in this kind of cryonics procedure to separate the head from the body?
CNN Transcript Aug 13, 2003
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They have been entertained mostly by the sort of people who think investing in cryonics is a sensible way to achieve immortality.
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An international science magazine is offering one reader the chance to win another life, through a competition offering a prize of cryonics treatment.
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But as a scientist, I know quite a few such people: Extropeans, folks associated with the Foresight Institute, cypherpunks, fans of cryonics, and so on.
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For the most part, when people think of cryonics, people think about long-term cryonics - that is, freezing people who are dead so they can be revived at some point in the future, as in the mythical frozen corpse of Walt Disney.
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We know cryonics is the nutcase science of hyperfreezing cadavers in hopes that someday there will be a way to bring the dead to life.
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Cryonics is slowly starting to 1 catch on.
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However, cryonics recognizes another concept, the so-called informational death when all data is erased on the molecular level.
Pravda.Ru
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Some developments in biomedical research relevant to pro - longevity are: “immortality” of tissue cultures, prolon - gation of life by underfeeding or cooling, studies of atherosclerosis, isolation of “status quo” hormones, discovery of protective action of glycerol and dimethyl sulphoxide in freezing (the “cryonics” movement and the first interment at ultra-low temperature in 1967).
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Great title aside, the article is an interesting history of the resuscitation of those with ambiguous mortality, from mouth-to-mouth to cryonics.
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cryonics is more science fiction than serious science
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Or perhaps I would like to see a prize awarded for research in cryonics.
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One critic went so far as to dub cryonics "quackery's last shot at you.
Gazette.com :
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Corvi-Mora, SE11, Fri to 31 JulSSMurray Ballard's The Prospect Of Immortality is the outcome of five years of photographic investigation into the cryonics industry, the technique of deep-freezing a human corpse in the belief or hope that future scientific advances might enable it to be brought back to life.
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The hotel heiress is keen to live forever and has invested a large sum of money in the world's biggest suspended animation cemetery, Cryonics Institute.
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