The method of choice for cryonics is not the spaceship, but the fridge. Clinical medicine is now able to switch people off for a period of time, leaving them with no heartbeat or brain activity. Used for certain surgical procedures, those who have been frozen say it was as if time stopped … and re-started an hour later. Accident and heart-attack victims are brought back from the dead on a daily basis through the use of defibrillators and CPR. Patients’ bodies are often cooled by neurosurgeons, so they can operate on aneurysms (enlarged blood vessels in the brain) without harm or rupture.
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