X-Message-Number: 33347
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 23:35:49 +0100
Subject: Quick burial vs. cryonics
From: Eivind Berge <>

Robert Ettinger mentions rabbis quoted in a Jewish newsletter article
saying the practice of cryonics is against the Jewish religion, which
requires quick burial. However, isn't cryonics based on the hope that
cryopreserved patients might actually be still alive? That they at
least should be given the benefit of the doubt? Surely the Jewish
religion does not require the burial of living people, so there should
be no conflict here. If cryonics patients can be revived, then they
were alive all along. We don't know yet if they can be revived, and
neither do the rabbis. Do Jews advocate quick burial in other
medically uncertain situations, such as for people in a coma who may
or may not be irreversibly gone? I didn't think so.

Eivind Berge

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