The cryonic refugee: appropriate analogy or confusing rhetoric?

The New Bioethics 28 (2):97-115 (2022)
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Cryopreservation presents the possibility of circumventing irreversible death through the body’s extreme cooling. Once cooled, this ‘cryon’ is then stored at sub-zero temperatures until medical kno...

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