Does Cryonics involve raising the dead?
No. Cryonics cannot provide life after death. Cryonics is just another kind of life-saving technology, such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). We believe that today’s medical criteria for “death” are flawed and inappropriate by the standards of future medicine. For example, when an otherwise healthy man “dies” of a heart attack, his brain (which is the seat of his memories, personality, and identity) is still intact. By placing him into cryopreservation immediately after physicians determine they cannot restart his heart, we can preserve his brain until it is possible to cure him. Indeed, even today many heart attack victims are successfully resuscitated despite the fact that only 50 years ago they would have been given up as dead. As this example illustrates, criteria for pronouncing “death” have changed as medicine has advanced. At the time of the New Testament, physicians could not resuscitate people after heartbeat and breathing ceased. But today’s physicians can often resusci
