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Author de Gioia Carabellese, Pierre

Title The Law of Cryonics A Legal Philosophical and Financial Analysis
Published Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2024

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Description 1 online resource (165 p.)
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: the fashionable and freezing world of cryonics -- 1 Human cryoconservation -- 2 Cryonics in literature -- 3 The methodology -- 4 Strengths and weaknesses -- 5 Impact -- 2 Human cryopreservation -- 1 Cultural background -- 2 Medical and scientific approach -- 3 The legally dead man -- 4 Cryonics and law: an oxymoron? -- 5 The freezing trial: cryonics in the courtroom -- 6 Cryonics and financial issue: the cryonic trust -- 7 Cryopreservation agreements -- 3 The junk side of cryonics: the homo sacer
1 The global crises -- 2 The junk science -- 3 Bitcoin as a fund for cryonics -- 4 Junk finance: from (junk) bond to bitcoin -- 5 The junk humanity: the concept of homo sacer -- 6 From homo sacer to cryo-humanity -- 7 Cryonics and finance: the oxymoron of the future society -- 4 Cryothanasia as an opportunity during a scarcity of medical resources -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Euthanasia: a sweet death? -- 3 The challenges during Covid-19 -- 4 Cryothanasia -- 4.1 The meaning of cryothanasia -- 4.2 Cryothanasia as a medical treatment -- 4.3 Cryothanasia as a way to manage in the NHS
5 The cost of a world without death -- 6 The sale and purchase agreement of life -- 5 From digital immortality to human immortality -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Digital immortality -- 3 The human immortality: cryoconservation -- 3.1 Before cryoconservation and during cryoconservation: patient or consumer? -- 3.2 Who is the new being? -- 4 After resuscitation, which scenario for the future of humanity? -- 4.1 The law of cryoconservation -- 4.2 The hybrid individual -- 4.3 The wholly artificial being -- 5 The life in a post-singularity world -- Conclusions -- 1 Cryonics: the human 'bubble'
2 The cryo-trust -- 3 From health emergency to cryonics -- 4 Cryolaw: the cryopatient and the cryobeing -- Index
Summary This book draws a subtle balance between bioethics and financial regulation. While the legal topic of human preservation or cryo-conservation may be regarded as belonging to the realm of medical law, the findings presented here suggest that its potential has strong economic implications
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Form Electronic book
Author Della Giustina, Camilla
ISBN 9781040002711
1040002714