X-Message-Number: 32516
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 13:33:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: david pizer <>


Here is a brief paper of my "talking points" on several cryonics topics that I 
plan to talk about with people who are not cryonicists and may have religions 
concerns.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

David Pizer



Cryonics/Religion

Brief explanation of cryonics.  


What reinforced my interest in cryonics is when I heard the U.S. military was 
supporting research by the Red Cross to develop techniques of cryonic suspension
to use on our servicemen and women who were severely injured in combat and 
needed complicated medical help to save their lives,  but that the medical 
equipment, hospital setting and trained specialized doctors were too far away 
from the battlefield for the wounded soldiers to receive proper help in time to 
save their lives.   So the military is  interested in developing ways of 
suspending the injured soldiers (halting the dying process) and then sending 
them to hospitals located far away from the battlefield to be revived and 
receive medical treatment that might save their lives.



Dying is often not an instant event but happens of a period of time sometimes 
taking several minutes or longer.  Sometimes patients who are dying or what some
people wold consider  temporary "dead" are revived with paddles or injections 
by emergency responders.  Cryonic Suspension is to be used when a person enters 
a state of no heart beat (from illness or accident) and could be declared 
legally dead but hopefully the cells of their body are still alive. Using 
cryonic procedure they are  put into a state of  suspended animation (where the 
dying process is hoped to be suspended) and the patient is hoped to be revived 
at a later time.


Space Travel 


Cryonics is also being studied by people interested in very long space travel to
other stars where it will take hundreds of years to get to.


Religion

Matthew 10:8  Jesus instructs people to heal the sick and raise the dead.  


Many religions support hospitals where doctors today heal the sick.  Perhaps 
doctors in the future will do something that looks like raising the dead in a 
matter of speaking by reviving people who are suspended today and healing them 
in the future.


Religious people who are signed up for cryonics believe that if God wills it, 
cryonics will work and people will wake up in the future to continue to complete
whatever God calls and plans for them.  


Neither cryonics organizations nor religions can guarantee eternal life, only 
God can do that.

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