Abstract In 1989, Thomas Donaldson requested the California courts to allow physicians to
hasten his death. Donaldson had been diagnosed with brain cancer, and he desired to die …

Cryonics is the practice of cryopreserving the bodies or brains of legally dead individuals
with the hope that these individuals will be reanimated in the future. A standard argument for …

In this article we discuss the moral and legal aspects of causing the death of a terminal
patient in the hope of extending their life in the future. We call this theoretical procedure …

Cryonics is the low temperature preservation of people who can no longer be sustained by
contemporary medicine in the hope that future medicine will make it possible to revive them …

Cryonics involves the low-temperature freezing of human corpses in the hope that they will
one day be reanimated. Its advocates see it as a medical treatment but as in any medical …

This chapter examines the ethical implications of cryopreservation. Cryopreservation is
usually performed soon after the heart has stopped beating, and after the individual has …

In an apparent international first, the High Court has allowed a terminally ill 14-year-old to be
cryopreserved after her death. The patient, JS, requested this, as she hoped one day to be …

In recent years, advances in medical science have left the legal community with a wide array
of social, ethical, and legal problems previously unimaginable. 1 Historically, legislative and …

In fascinating recent work, some philosophers have argued that it would be morally
permissible and prudentially rational to sign up for cryonics—if you can afford the price tag of …

This paper provides a new rationale for equating brain death with the death of the human
organism, in light of well-known criticisms made by Alan D Shewmon, Franklin Miller and …