The first step in the cryonic suspension process is to restart the patient's circulation and breathing under controlled conditions. Believing cryonics could reanimate somebody who has been frozen is like believing you can turn hamburger back into a cow. The cryonics people freeze dead bodies and we feel there is no chance of reanimation because of the total destructive damage to the cells. This is absurd. Cryonics patients are frozen long before most of their cells die or become structurally disorganized.
Science progresses by a logical and sensible process.
Harold T. Meryman, Ph.D. American Red Cross Rockville, Maryland Cryonics is logical, sensible, and conservative. If someone has a terminal disease, we do not withhold life-extending measures because there is not yet a cure. We maintain the patient to the extent of our ability, while continuing to search for ways to restore him or her to health and vigor. Since cryonics patients can't be cured by today's doctors, we are maintaining them to the extent of our ability. Further, we conduct scientific research, and utilize the findings of cryobiologists like Dr. Meryman, in a constant effort to improve our own suspension methods.