At first glance, the bizarre world of cryonics might appear to raise troubling theological questions. If, for example, a body could somehow be revived five hundred years hence, where would the soul have been during the interim? Fortunately, theology is an applied science so meaningful pronouncements are only required when a substantive moral dilemma or religious quandary exists. The scientific consensus is that any body frozen using current technology has no chance of being revived in the future. Too much damage will have been done.
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How troubled should Catholics be by advances in cryogenic freezing?
What does cryonics mean to those of us who believe in an afterlife?
Jonathan Wright

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