{"id":73439,"date":"2017-10-24T02:42:28","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T09:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/cryonics-putting-death-on-ice"},"modified":"2017-10-24T02:42:28","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T09:42:28","slug":"cryonics-putting-death-on-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/cryonics-putting-death-on-ice","title":{"rendered":"Cryonics: Putting Death on Ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cryonics-putting-death-on-ice.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Robert C. W. Ettinger\u2019s seminal work, The Prospect Of Immortality, detailed many of the scientific, moral, and economic implications of cryogenically freezing humans for later reanimation. It was after that book was published in 1962 that the idea of freezing one\u2019s body after death began to take hold.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most pressing questions is, even if we\u2019re able to revive a person who has been cryogenically preserved, will the person\u2019s memories and personality remain intact? Ettinger posits that long-term memory is stored in the brain as a long-lasting structural modification. Basically, those memories will remain, even if the brain\u2019s \u201cpower is turned off\u201d.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>This infographic delves into the mechanics and feasibility of cryonics \u2013 a process that thousands of people are betting will give them a second shot at life.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visualcapitalist.com\/cryonics-putting-death-ice\/\">http:\/\/www.visualcapitalist.com\/cryonics-putting-death-ice\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert C. W. Ettinger\u2019s seminal work, The Prospect Of Immortality, detailed many of the scientific, moral, and economic implications of cryogenically freezing humans for later reanimation. It was after that book was published in 1962 that the idea of freezing one\u2019s body after death began to take hold. One of the most pressing questions is, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2017,39,30,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryonics","category-economics","category-ethics","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73439","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}