Can Suspended Animation Extend Life?
Can Suspended Animation Extend Life?Answer: Suspended animation is the process of slowing metabolism and other activity associated with living through external means (such as applying cold) without causing death. This idea has led to all sorts of science fiction applications of suspended animation, the most common example is putting the idea of putting astronauts in suspended animation during space flights of incredibly long duration. Suspended Animation, Not Cryonics When people typically think of suspended animation and life extension, they often get confused between suspended animation and the idea of cryonics. In cryonics, a person is literally frozen using liquid nitrogen. The person is, technically, dead. The cryonics proponents believe that, as technology develops, a frozen person cold be reanimated, or brought back to life. Some (very rich people) have chosen to have their bodies frozen at the moment of death using cryonics with the idea that, decades or centuries from now, the
