BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 14.4//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Central Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Central Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Central Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Department of Bioethics and Health Humanities \;SeminarCryo preservation: \;Hype or Hope? \;Thursday\, November 10\, 202212:00 &ndash\; 1:00 p.m.Richard Gibson\, PhDVisiting ScholarInstitute for Bioet hics &\; Health HumanitiesDepartment of Bioethics &\; Health Humanit iesSchool of Public and Population HealthRegister HERE in advance for the Zoom lecture.After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email.&nb sp\;The specter of death stalks biological existence. Nevertheless\, human ity continuously searches for ways to reject this inevitability. One of th is desire&rsquo\;s most recent manifestations comes in the form of cryopre servation &ndash\; the posthumous sub-zero storage of one&rsquo\;s body in the hopes that medical science discovers an eventual curative revival. Wh ile undoubtedly a science fiction staple\, it&rsquo\;s an increasingly pop ular choice for those contemplating life&rsquo\;s end. However\, tempering this popularity is the fact that post-cryopreservation revival is current ly impossible. Given the associated practical uncertainties and principled objections\, many doubt cryopreservation&rsquo\;s ethical\, social\, and legal justifiability. This lecture tackles three of cryopreservation&rsquo \;s most pressing bioethical questions. It first explores whether the cryo preserved are alive\, dead\, or something else and what this means for how external actors should treat them. It then problematizes the image employ ed by existing cryopreservation companies of a welcoming future society. F inally\, it challenges the current economically-driven cryopreservation di stribution model\, suggesting the potential moral superiority of other met hods. As more and more people spend more and more money on their dream of outwitting death\, these questions\, amongst numerous others\, will only i ncrease in saliency. \; \; \; DTEND:20221110T190000Z DTSTAMP:20240329T050029Z DTSTART:20221110T180000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Cryopreservation: Hype or Hope? UID:RFCALITEM638472672295906204 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
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The spe cter of death stalks biological existence. Nevertheless\, humanity continu ously searches for ways to reject this inevitability. One of this desire&r squo\;s most recent manifestations comes in the form of cryopreservation & ndash\; the posthumous sub-zero storage of one&rsquo\;s body in the hopes that medical science discovers an eventual curative revival. While undoubt edly a science fiction staple\, it&rsquo\;s an increasingly popular choice for those contemplating life&rsquo\;s end. However\, tempering this popul arity is the fact that post-cryopreservation revival is currently impossib le. Given the associated practical uncertainties and principled objections \, many doubt cryopreservation&rsquo\;s ethical\, social\, and legal justi fiability. This lecture tackles three of cryopreservation&rsquo\;s most pr essing bioethical questions. It first explores whether the cryopreserved a re alive\, dead\, or something else and what this means for how external a ctors should treat them. It then problematizes the image employed by exist ing cryopreservation companies of a welcoming future society. Finally\, it challenges the current economically-driven cryopreservation distribution model\, suggesting the potential moral superiority of other methods. As mo re and more people spend more and more money on their dream of outwitting death\, these questions\, amongst numerous others\, will only increase in saliency.
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