Can people donate their bodies to cryonics research ?
Cryonics organizations accept patients on the basis that they are people who are expected to be restored as fully restored animate entities in the future. The use of the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act by cryonics organizations treats cryonics patients as whole body donors. Because cryonics is unproven, it can be regarded as an experiment. But it is not the intent of any cryonics organization to attempt re-animation until considerable prior research has verified that reanimation will successfully revive the memory and identity of the person who was cryopreserved. From a financial point of view, it would be very costly to cryopreserve people today for an experiment to be performed many decades in the future. From an ethical point of view, people should not be treated as experimental subjects in matters of life-and-death.
Cryonics organizations accept patients on the basis that they are people who are expected to be restored as fully restored animate entities in the future. The use of the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act by cryonics organizations treats cryonics patients as whole body donors. Because cryonics is unproven, it can be regarded as an experiment. But it is not the intent of any cryonics organization to attempt re-animation until considerable prior research has verified that reanimation will successfully revive the memory and identity of the person who was cryopreserved. From a financial point of view, it would be very costly to cryopreserve people today for an experiment to be performed many decades in the future. From an ethical point of view, people should not be treated as experimental subjects in matters of life-and-death. To date, no cryonics organization has used a donated body strictly for experimental purposes (ie, not ultimately placed in liquid nitrogen with the hope of future reanimati
