Cryonics
Cryonics is the practice of storing those beyond the reach of today's medicine at very low temperatures in the hope that future medicine is able to revive and cure them. Such revival is yet to be demonstrated, and as a result cryonics is not a recognised medical procedure and so can only take place after legal death in the United States. Cryonics advocates distinguish legal death from the state of information-theoretic death, the point at which the information in the brain that makes up personality and memory is destroyed by the process of death; the purpose of cryonics practice is to delay information-theoretic death until revival becomes possible.
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