cryonic
Americanadjective
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“I was once interviewed by a group of cryonic enthusiasts – based in California – called the society for the abolition of involuntary death,” recalls the Astronomer Royal Martin Rees.
From The Guardian ● May 6, 2018
“It is not about whether cryonic preservation has any scientific basis or whether it is right or wrong,” Jackson wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2016
In his most funereal novel, DeLillo describes a wealthy man determined to save his dying wife by keeping her frozen in cryonic suspension for millennia.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2016
He suggested that ministers should consider "proper regulation" of cryonic preservation for the future.
From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2016
Karhidish psychologists, though lacking mindspeech and thus like, blind surgeons, were ingenious with drugs, hypnosis, spotshock, cryonic touch, and various mental therapies; I asked if these two psychopaths could not be cured.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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