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Progress in cryonics is slow, largely due to lack of funding and public awareness. People are usually unwilling to consider their inevitable deaths because death itself is taboo, frightening, and the process of dying is already orchestrated by accepted medical protocols. Considering the advances that have been made in previously unacceptable medical procedures (e.g. anaesthesia, organ transplantation, blood-transfusion, etc.) which are now common-place life saving techniques, cryonics need not remain medically unacceptable and publicly viewed as a frightening challenge to traditional belief-systems. Once more people are convinced of the utility and humanity of cryonics, greater advances in this life-saving experiment can be made.

It is true that current cryonics procedures do cause some damage to patients' cells, tissues and organs. It is also true that the longer a non-functioning (legally dead) patient is left unaided, the more their structure deteriorates, and the smaller their chances of recovery become. But so long as the cryonics procedure is successful and the container containing the body (known as a dewar or cryostat; essentially a big thermos bottle designed to store liquid nitrogen efficiently) is maintained, the cryopreserved patient will structurally persist unchanged.

There is ongoing improvement in preservation methods which should ensure continual progress in decreasing the damage that occurs during cryopreservation. Cryonicists have many good reasons to hope that the cryonics medical experiment will be successful and that sometime in the future, humanity will have enough scientific knowledge (and the wish) to revive them by healing the damage that killed them, as well as healing the damage caused by the process of cryopreservation that saved them in the first place.

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