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Body of cryonic pioneer Robert Ettinger frozen
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What do you think? Will Mr. Ettinger live again one day?

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Body of cryonic pioneer Robert Ettinger frozen
Robert Ettinger, pioneer of the cryonics movement that advocates freezing the dead in the hope that medical technology will enable them to live again someday, has died. He was 92.


Ettinger died on Saturday at home in the Detroit suburb of Clinton Township after weeks of declining health, son David Ettinger said. His body became the 106th to be stored at the Cryonics Institute, which he founded in 1976.

"My father devoted himself to doing what he could to enable his family, his friends and others to come back and live again," David Ettinger told The Associated Press. "Whether he will achieve that nobody knows at this point, but we think he has a good shot."

Robert Ettinger, who taught physics at Wayne State University, was seriously wounded during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II and spent years in hospitals. The bone graft surgery that spared his legs inspired his optimism about the future prospects of preserving life through technology, a Cryonics Institute statement said.

His son said Ettinger also was inspired by science fiction writings about deep-freezing the dead and expected researchers to make serious progress toward developing the idea. But when nothing seemed to be happening, he wrote a 1964 book, "The Prospect of Immortality," introducing the concept of cryonics.

"If civilization endures, medical science should eventually be able to repair almost any damage to the human body," he wrote, "including freezing damage and senile debility or other cause of death."

He added: "No matter what kills us, whether old age or disease, and even if freezing techniques are still crude when we die, sooner or later our friends of the future should be equal to the task of reviving and curing us."

Ettinger promoted his theory in other writings and appearances on television talk shows. The Cryonics Institute has 900 members. Similar facilities for preserving dead bodies operate in Arizona, California and Russia. Ettinger also established the Immortalist Society, a research and education group devoted to cryonics and extending the human life span.

The Cryonics Institute charges $28,000 (£17,000) to prepare a body and store it long-term in a tank of liquid nitrogen at minus 321 degrees Fahrenheit. The first person frozen there was Ettinger's mother, Rhea Ettinger, who died in 1977. His two wives, Elaine and Mae, also are patients at the Institute.

Ettinger was never bothered by ridicule and was a "reluctant prophet," his son said.

"He did what he thought was necessary and appropriate and didn't worry much about what people thought," David Ettinger said. "The people who are scoffers are like the people who said heavier-than-air flight won't work."

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Re: Body of cryonic pioneer Robert Ettinger frozen [Re: Kamek]
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Has a better chance of being cloned- And why freeze a dead body? They need to freeze someone thats alive- they may have a better chance to reviving them.

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Re: Body of cryonic pioneer Robert Ettinger frozen [Re: 2jew4u]
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no reviving. Fuckers dead. and all the other 105 bodies.

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Re: Body of cryonic pioneer Robert Ettinger frozen [Re: Octavian]
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haha this is so fuckin' strange...


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People never seem to know what they least suspect is coming next.

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Re: Body of cryonic pioneer Robert Ettinger frozen [Re: Octavian]
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Octavian said:
no reviving. Fuckers dead. and all the other 105 bodies.



Prove it.

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Re: Body of cryonic pioneer Robert Ettinger frozen [Re: sixbluntsdeep]
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they used to bury people in comas a few hundred years ago, and then when they "came back to life" they'd be burned as vampires.


Don't tell me there's no way for us to advance to the point of being able to catalyze life.


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Re: Body of cryonic pioneer Robert Ettinger frozen [Re: The Ecstatic]
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They might be able to get his heart to beat again and to maybe get his blood flowing or something. But I doubt he will still be him if he comes back to life. I bet that even if they were to clone him he wouldn't be the same person.

I think it's fun to think about the possibilities of bringing people back to life like this in combination with a belief in reincarnation. Then you'd be happily reincarneted somewhere and then suddenly a corpse from a previous life would be revived.

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Re: Body of cryonic pioneer Robert Ettinger frozen [Re: sixbluntsdeep]
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sixbluntsdeep said:
Octavian said:
no reviving. Fuckers dead. and all the other 105 bodies.



Prove it.


The ice crystals that resulted from the 75% of water his body is composed of ripped every cellular wall in his body to shit when it froze, veins, arteries, capillaries, cells, everything.



Western cultures rabid fear of death is amusing.

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Re: Body of cryonic pioneer Robert Ettinger frozen [Re: Bodhi of Ankou]
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Bodhi of Ankou said:
Western cultures rabid fear of death is amusing.


so very amusing. qft


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Re: Body of cryonic pioneer Robert Ettinger frozen [Re: Bodhi of Ankou]
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Bodhi of Ankou said:
The ice crystals that resulted from the 75% of water his body is composed of ripped every cellular wall in his body to shit when it froze, veins, arteries, capillaries, cells, everything.



Western cultures rabid fear of death is amusing.



I don't think you understand the process.  If you were to toss a dude in a freezer you would be 100% correct.

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