{"id":4531,"date":"2012-08-15T13:31:33","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T20:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=4531"},"modified":"2012-08-16T13:34:26","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T20:34:26","slug":"approaching-the-great-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/approaching-the-great-rescue","title":{"rendered":"Approaching the Great Rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2012\/08\/120815131137.htm\">http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2012\/08\/120815131137.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One more step has been taken toward making whole body cryopreservation a practical reality. An understanding of the properties of water allows the temperature of the human body to be lowered without damaging cell structures.<\/p>\n<p>Just as the microchip revolution was unforeseen the societal effects of suspending death have been overlooked completely.<\/p>\n<p>The first successful procedure to freeze a human being and then revive that person without damage at a later date will be the most important single event in human history. When that person is revived he or she will awaken to a completely different world.<\/p>\n<p>It will be a mad rush to build storage facilities for the critically ill so their lives can be saved. The very old and those in the terminal stages of disease will be rescued from imminent death. Vast resources will be turned toward the life sciences as the race to repair the effects of old age and cure disease begins. Hundreds of millions may eventually be awakened once aging is reversed. Life will become far more valuable overnight and activities such as automobile and air travel will be viewed in a new light. War will end because no one will desire to hasten the death of another human being.<\/p>\n<p>It will not be immortality, just parole from the death row we all share. Get ready.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2012\/08\/120815131137.htm One more step has been taken toward making whole body cryopreservation a practical reality. An understanding of the properties of water allows the temperature of the human body to be lowered without damaging cell structures. Just as the microchip revolution was unforeseen the societal effects of suspending death have been overlooked completely. The first [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,43,19,40,32,38,30,46,385,12,20,5,386,37,269,42,47,225,31,64,17,410],"tags":[25,130,2139,2130,63,163,182,70,131,161,60,100,2149,2128,330,251],"class_list":["post-4531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-biotech-medical","category-business","category-chemistry","category-complex-systems","category-education","category-engineering","category-ethics","category-events","category-evolution","category-existential-risks","category-futurism","category-geopolitics","category-homo-sapiens","category-human-trajectories","category-life-extension","category-media-arts","category-neuroscience","category-philosophy","category-policy","category-singularity","category-sustainability","category-transparency","tag-collective-intelligence","tag-culture","tag-education","tag-existential-risks","tag-extinction","tag-freedom","tag-future","tag-health-tag","tag-humanity","tag-politics","tag-research","tag-risks","tag-singularity","tag-space","tag-the-singularity","tag-transhumanism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}