The Paradoxical Death through Cryothanasia or Playing God. A Moral-Theological Approach

Abstract

In the 21st century a new paradigm is developing — transhumanism. Scientific discoveries and technological development in various areas, especially those such as bioengineering, biotechnology and nanomedicine, push this paradigm towards a new revolution and a new approach towards life and death. Currently, hundreds of people in the terminal stage of an incurable disease turn to the services of cryogenics institutes, hoping that in the future, with the development of medicine and nanotechnology, they will be awakened and healed. If today cryopreservation is possible only after the declaration of death, the right of premature cryopreservation by euthanasia — cryothanasia is requested, by which it is assumed that death could become a reversible process.