Good Points of Cryonics:
If either members of endangered species, or their sperm and eggs, are cryogenically preserved; then perhaps extinctions could oneday become a thing of the past. Earlier this century, perfectly preserved specimens of long-extinct wooly mammoths and/or mastodons were found in one of the Arctic areas of our planet. it would have been significant if such creatures were cryogenically frozen, but alas, the discoverers of these frozen treasures of the past actually ate what they found. Perhaps if new genetic or cloning techniques were discovered, then these ancient ancestors of the elephant could have optimistically been back among the living after more than a ten thousand year absence.
Freezing blood and/or bodily organs from the recently deceased may someday avert the dangers of ailing patients needing to patiently wait until organ transplants or blood transfusions are readily available. It could also perhaps make it easier to screen out tainted blood or diseased organs. (to be cont'd)
[The original version of this essay entitled "Cryonics" first appeared in Eastern Connecticut State University's Campus Lantern student newspaper in the early '90s and as part of my unpublished manuscript "In Mediocrity We Trust... In Debt We Die" And Other Essays]
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