It is a price that must presently be paid for establishing a condition in which patients can be stabilized indefinitely. This damage is very serious, not fully understood, and effects tissue at all levels, from the molecular to the gross structural. It is far beyond the capabilities of present medicine to repair. Only future cell repair technologies capable of sophisticated repair of tissue at a molecular level would be able to reverse this injury and possibly revive today's suspension patients. Considering the severity and present irreversibility of this injury, cryonic suspension can only be condoned when no other hope for continued quality life remains.
Synaptic conditioning is believed to be central to the process of long-term memory storage.
Current cryonic suspension technology preserves both gross and fine structural detail of synapses very well, supporting the likelihood that patient identity is truly preserved by the procedure. This is an essential step of the cryonic suspension process and requires thoracic surgical procedures for optimum effectiveness.