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Freezing lhe oead
the spirit: neither batb he power in the day
of death ...."
And ln Ec:clesiastes
12:7,
Solomon ogaln
speal<s of what happeos
al
death: "Then
shllllthe dust (body( return
10
the earth
as
it
wa.:
and the spirit
sbllll retum
unto God
wbopveit...
they any more a rcward.... Also thei.r love,
and their hatrcd, and thcir envy, is now per·
ished: neitber have chey any more a portian
for cver
in
any tluog thal
is
done u.oder the
SUD~"'
ls There Life After the Thaw?
Only
Gocl.
in
tbe 6nal analy.is, can restare
tbe dead
ID
lite. And
1101
through cryogerua
- but notber tblousJ>
a
fUtu.re resurrection.
Tbat rcsw::rcetion
1.s
one of the central
tbemes of the Btble and an integnol part of
Ood's plan for mankind.
lt
is
described
througbout the Bible in places like
1
Corin–
thians
tS,
J
Thess.alonians 4, Revelation 20,
etc. When that montentous event occurs,
then a nd only then will death finally be
conquered.
a
by
George
R~tter
"Frceu now - live later... Or bc:tter
)'tt.
..Frccz..e
wait - reanimatc.,.. Tbat•s the
•legan of tite Life Extension Soaety, whose
members are actively involved
U\
uyang
lO
cbcat
man·~
ultima.le eoemy - t.be grave.
ProponenlS of this .,never·say·dic.. con·
cept known
as
cryogenics are hoping that
somecime in the
futurc scicnce
wiJJ
be ablc
to uruavel the mysteries ortife and revitaliza
their frozcn corpses. Already severa) bodics
or
former cryoge:nics: eothu.siasts bavt been
placcd "oo
ice"
in
specilllly d..igned collins
supen:ooled to sevenol
huodred
degn:es
be–
low
uro.
A
number ofothers havc
StSJled
up
for Slmúar treument
upoo
thcir
de
mise.
SomeChiUing Obstades
Lavlng celis subjected to tbe freezlog pro·
ces;
normally suffer irreparable domage be·
cause or the formation of ice
crystals.
To
climinatc
this
problem, an ..antifreeu••
sub-–
stance musl
be
intused into tbc organism
belng froten. The ttouble
is
tbat 11's almost
unposs•ble for tbe antifreae to pcrroeate
•11
the celb lD\olved
in
an orpnasm líke t.he
human body. Oilretent ·paru of tbe body
abo
have
dJff~rent
optimum
c:ooltns
rates.
Consequendy. proper refrigenouon could
not takc place unJess a wide variety of
fren·
'"S
rate.s were
simuJtaneously employed on
thc •ame corpse. But most
pam
or
thc body
can't be rrozen fast enough. The broin cclls,
ror
in-Stance, are believed to deterioratc
minutes after dcath.
Ytt
frcezin¡
of
a nor–
mal human
body
at a controlled racc could
take atleastan hour.
The lh.awan,g..out
proces$
is
fraustu
•••h
¡ust as maoy dtlticulttes. The
first
cells to
be
thawcd may dctcnortte before other more
remole cclls can
be
warmed up. Bccause
of
such difficulties, not even simple organs have
remained functional once they have beco
subjected to the f'ree1.e
4
thaw cyclc.
As
if
this wcrcn't cnough, no one has the
foggiest notion or how to reanimate a cada·
ver, f102en
or otherwise. And somebody
would b.ave
to
figure
out
a
cure
for
whatever
fatal malady caused the person's deatb be·
rore
be could
sutvi\'C:
a retum from
hi.s
su!).
zero
gnove.
The Real
Ufo
Civer
But these medical problems. as
formi~
dable
as
they
~re.
don't really get to the
crw<
ofman's attempts to eonquer death. Tbere is
a.nolher dimension to
homo sapiens
that can
only
be
deall with by hi& Creator, not by
science or
by
the tcchniques of cryogenic:s.
lt
Wa$
describe<J in thc
th.lrty~$eCOnd
chaptet Of
t6e book of Job, when one of tbe patriarcbs
e.xdaimcd: ""There
is
a spirit in mao; a.nd
thc:
inspiratioo of the AlmisJ>ty pveth tbem
un–
dcrst.anditJ&."
h ta.kcs more than cbemica.ls lO gene.rate.
human lite. Wheo Ood formed Adam's
body out of tbe dust of the grouncl. Adam
did not "beoome alive" until Ood had
"'breathc-d into
has
nostnb lhe
breath
of
life."
The spirit and brcath of life are Ood's to
g¡ve - oot ma.n's. And when dtath occurs.
:~:
=:e
~~is~~f~: N~n~~
to!:;
rnao that batb power over the JPirit
tO
retaio
Ñ
ftr
u man
is
concernecl. tbe state of
death is ftnal, and tbere
is
no human re–
counc
ISlii\St iL
Ac:cordiog lO lhe patnarch
Job: "As thc cloud
is
consumed and van–
isheth away:
so
he that goeth down to the
grave shall oome up no more" (Job
7:9).
And again Solomon in Eoclesinstes
9:S-6:
"For the living know tbat tbey sball die : but
the dead know not anything. ncíther have
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