The Frozen People

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prolong their life. In the near future, there will be cures for diseases such as AIDS and cancer. Cryonics would be able to give a frozen person with such diseases a chance to be eventually cured. Cryonics would prolong life not only to the age of eighty, but possibly to about one hundred and twenty. “Imagine the chance of being reunited with the people you care about, in the future of exciting possibilities” (What). A life in the future may hold exciting new developments; however, the science of cryonics has not been successfully proven to be effective. “Today, a tiny group of biologists is still trying to bring cryonics ‘to its perfection.’ A far larger group of debunkers; however, says cryonics is little more than bogus science, its promise, they say, will never be fulfilled.” (Schaer). Therefore, today's society should not be able to invest in and/or participate in cryonic suspension until it has been proven to be successful and without side effects.
The first reason cryonic suspension should not be used is because of the ove...