Hope Frozen review: The hard ethics of cryogenically freezing a child

by Philippa Kaur 23 September 2020, 18:00 189 Views

Netflix’s Hope Frozen documentary follows a family in Thailand that cryogenically freezes their 2-year-old daughter’s brain after she dies, creating a controversy-fuelled media storm

Humans 23 September 2020

Hope Frozen: A quest to live twice

Pailin Wedel

Netflix

THE world – including this magazine – hasn’t shied away from expressing opinions about the Alcor Life Extension Foundation, the US non-profit founded by Fred and Linda Chamberlain in 1972 to freeze corpses and body parts in the hope of one day resurrecting the dead.

Most observers are content with interrogating Alcor’s bizarre mission by asking if technologies for resurrection will ever be viable. This, of course, is a non-question: who knows what is around the corner? The successful freezing and thawing of a …

Source: Humans - newscientist.com

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Hope Frozen review: The hard ethics of cryogenically freezing a child

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Global warming may lead to practically irreversible Antarctic melting

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