Keywords: cryonics, cryoprotectants, resurrection, immortality, cryostat
Abstract:
In the second half of the twentieth century the foundations of cryogenics were laid, the act of legally preserving at very low temperatures and depositing for decades or centuries dead people, hoping that in an advanced future they will be brought back to life with their mental faculties intact through the use of revolutionary technologies that medical science will develop. In a supposedly secular, post-religious world, cryogenics is one of the choices of new technologies proposed to postmodern man on the issue of death. Thus, the contemporary individual is offered the hope of a possible journey into the future by technical and medical means, towards a world of abundance and eternal earthly life. In this respect, in order to create a more pertinent image on the attitude of contemporary man before death, it is necessary to analyze the act of cryopreservation and its implications and to provide a Christian-orthodox perspective on the mentioned procedure, observing that the Orthodox space and, implicitly, the Romanian one is not unfamiliar to it.
Pages: 95-112