Abstract
This chapter engages with ethical, legal and public policy questions about cryonics, a speculative technology whose proponents envisage the erasure of death through indefinite cold-storage and ‘reanimation’ of human cadavers. Claims regarding cryonics provoke thought about bioethics and about a belief system whose proponents expect that future tools will defeat death.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Technology, Users and Uses |
| Subtitle of host publication | Ethics and Human Interaction Through Technology and AI |
| Editors | Joan Casas-Roma , Jordi Conesa, Santi Caballé |
| Publisher | Ethics Press |
| Chapter | 12 |
| Pages | 309-336 |
| Number of pages | 28 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781871891966 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781871891959 |
| Publication status | Published - 2023 |