Cryonics is a hybrid industry combining medical and death industries.[more+]

I've been thinking about cryonics since 1978 when I found Ettinger's Prospect of Immortality at a used book sale for 50 cents. I had been attending McMaster University in Hamilton Ontario at the time-- in 1978-- and used book stores for me, at that time-- were my equivalent today of the internet to a large extent. From 1978 to 2008, 30 years-- I've seen cryonics go.... nowhere essentially. Yes, there have been technical advances-- and some growth-- but nothing like what the original thesis by Ettinger-- and the lost thesis of Ev Cooper-- imagined-- which was a revolutionary approach to death that transformed death into a mere temporary medical condition that, at the time, was rightfullly called "suspended animation". Click on [more+] in the subject line above.