... [b]ut the main point of this paper is to persuade the scientific and medical community
that now is the time to develop this ASC procedure into a reliable medical procedure that can be offered to terminal patients. This is a radical proposal that can easily be misunderstood. This misunderstanding often manifests itself in questions like: ``Why on earth would a terminal patient desire such an option in the first place?'', ``How would such a procedure work on a practical level?'', ``Are patient safeguards even possible for a procedure whose final success won't be known for decades or centuries?'', ``Can we even imagine the technologies that would allow future revival?''
Perhaps the best way to answer all of these questions is to offer a speculative short story meant to summarize and clarify this vision. The following fictional story follows a man diagnosed with Alzheimer's dementia in the year 2030 who chooses to undergo ASC preservation in the hopes of future revival. Extensive footnotes throughout this fictional story briefly explain the science behind key steps and point to references that support the science and technology discussed.
that now is the time to develop this ASC procedure into a reliable medical procedure that can be offered to terminal patients. This is a radical proposal that can easily be misunderstood. This misunderstanding often manifests itself in questions like: ``Why on earth would a terminal patient desire such an option in the first place?'', ``How would such a procedure work on a practical level?'', ``Are patient safeguards even possible for a procedure whose final success won't be known for decades or centuries?'', ``Can we even imagine the technologies that would allow future revival?''
Perhaps the best way to answer all of these questions is to offer a speculative short story meant to summarize and clarify this vision. The following fictional story follows a man diagnosed with Alzheimer's dementia in the year 2030 who chooses to undergo ASC preservation in the hopes of future revival. Extensive footnotes throughout this fictional story briefly explain the science behind key steps and point to references that support the science and technology discussed.
HAYWORTH, Kenneth. Vitrifying the Connectomic Self: A case for developing Aldehyde Stabilized Cryopreservation into a medical procedure.
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