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This article is from the Cryonics FAQ,
by Tim Freeman tim@infoscreen.com with numerous contributions by
others.
3-9. Is there a conflict between cryonics and religious beliefs?
If revival is possible, cryonic suspension is in no greater conflict
with religion than is any other life-saving medical technology. If a
religion does not object to resuscitating someone who has experienced
clinical death from a heart attack, it should not object to reviving
suspension patients.
On the other hand, if revival turns out to be impossible, then the
question becomes whether the suspension is consistent with whatever
instructions the religion gives for dealing with funerals.
Perhaps the most honest approach is to look at the instructions a
religion gives for dealing with a missing person who is not known to be
either dead or alive.
Any model of how "souls" (whatever they may be) interact with freezing
must predict that people with normal behavior can be raised from
frozen embryos, since this is actually true.
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