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Atheists do you believe in cryonics.?

 storage of a human corpse or severed head, with the speculative hope that resurrection may be possible in the future.

Update:

@ HUH?  An idiot is one who does not understand the difference between alive and dead.  Embryos are living organisms at a particular stage of development.  Try freezing a dead embryo and see if the result will be the same, dummy.

As to asking atheists I already know what the answer will be from theists.  When the body dies it is dead, dead, dead and cannot be resuscitated. Only God can do that.

Update 2:

@ HUH?  An idiot is one who does not know the difference of alive and dead.  An embryo is a living organism at a particular stage of development.  Try freezing a dead embryo and see if it will produce the same results. 

Update 3:

Cryonics is the low-temperature freezing and storage of a human corpse or severed head, WITH the speculative hope that resurrection may be possible in the future. Cryonics is regarded with skepticism within the mainstream scientific community. Wikipedia

Update 4:

@ Fingers and those who say cryonics is just a thing.  Dead bodies are frozen all the time before they are buried: read the above to understand the true meaning of cryonics.

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  • Anonymous
    6 months ago
    Favorite Answer

    I do not think that we will ever be able to make it work.  When there is a stroke, the momentary loss of blood to the brain causes long term damage.  Being that it is one big electrochemical reaction, I think that there will be too many memory cells wiped out, so even if they can reanimate the body, the brain will have lost too much programming and the person will never be themselves again.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    6 months ago

    Yes, I believe cryonics is a real thing because there are frozen corpse storage facilities, but as far as believing those corpses and heads will be able to be revived in the future, no I don't.  I expect that as time goes on the funding will dry up or families will stop paying the bill, and those corpses and heads will be dumped in cemeteries.

  • 6 months ago

    Jesus christ. Can you morons ask a real question. Do I believe in cryonics, yes, it is a thing. Do I think they can cut a humans head off and revive them at a later date, not only no, but hell no. This is another grift to separate gullible fools like you from their money.

  • 6 months ago

    It's stupid. If humans were developed enough to revive you, it would enough for them to start from stored DNA instead of a stored head.

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  • Huh?
    Lv 7
    6 months ago

    Gloria, are you an idiot? 

    Corpses have been frozen. We already freeze tissue such as human embryos which have been thawed and implanted to produce healthy babies.  These are facts so belief and disbelief is nonsensical, it is real. Perhaps you are not smart enough to construct a proper question.  Did you mean to ask if it is moral or ethical? If people think that it will be someday possible to reanimate corpses? 

    There is no question that cryonics is real, just ask the millions of women around the world that have had embryos frozen and stored or their children born following that process.  

    Besides the obvious flaw in your question, why are you directing it to atheists? Atheism is a position on a single subject, the exist of a God or gods.  Anything that is not related to that subject is irrelevant to atheism so to direct a question like yours to atheists is extremely stupid.Sometimes it is necessary to bluntly point out the stupid to encourage more rational thinking in the future. 

  • Anonymous
    6 months ago

    I don't believe in cryonics.  

    I know for a fact that cryonics exists.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    6 months ago

    What's to believe in?  If the technology exists, it exists.  Do I believe it would preserve my brain and consciousness to be re-animated at some later date?  Probably not, and I wouldn't try something like that.

  • Anonymous
    6 months ago

    A person can battle atheism and other sins using true devotion to St. Catherine of Siena.  She is a virgin and stigmatist who lived from 1347-1380.  The residence where she grew up is still around and her head and thumb are preserved in Siena to this day.  St. Catherine is the patroness of protection against fires and is one of four female Doctors of the Catholic Church along with St. Hildegard, St. Teresa of Avila and St. Therese of Lisieux.  Catherine was mystically wed to Christ and received a ring from Him.  She exchanged hearts with Him as well and had a scar on her body for life from this transplantation of hearts!

  • 6 months ago

    You mean do I believe that cryonics will work?

    I think you mean to say reanimation. What I know, with current tech ology, those now frozen won't be reanimated. And especially them that just had their brain or head frozen.

    It's a nice thought though. And kind of a religion, itself

    Source(s): This would be needed for long space voyages. So there's a motive for developing something like this. If only lowering body temp.to save food and air.
  • Emdog
    Lv 6
    6 months ago

    Not so much a question of belief. Should be a question of "does it work"? Some lower life forms can be frozen and revived, but so far no humans. And freezing head creates ice crystals which destroy cells. Until they can store without damage, revival is off the table.

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