You understand that he isn’t actually planning on freezing himself right?Let’s assume that cryogenics works, and you were able to be revived and healed 1000 years hence.
How would you live in this new society? WHERE would you live? How would you support yourself?
Think about these issues.
Although the Church might not have explicitly passed judgement on it, it certainly is immoral. The Church follows the Natural Law when evaluating these issues. Anything contrary to the Natural Law is immoral. This is the artificial interruption of the divinely created normal aging process, the attempt to cheat the divinely created natural time of death, skip the natural order of time, and become a part of a generation to which one was not intended by the Creator to belong to. It is also contrary to man’s dignity to be free, conscious, and sober. Indeed, the Church condemns certain methods of palliative care that unnecessarily puts the dying patient in a medically induced coma to spare them of the pain and fear of death. The patient must be alert and sober as much as possible and treated with pain medication and anesthetics that do not knock them out long. Further, every decision we make in life must be ordered to our last end which is to be one with God. We do not live life for its own sake, we live it in order to be with God. Therefore, decisions of medical treatment must be proportionate. That is the cost must not outweigh the benefits and there must be a reasonable chance of successfully treating the disease. Cryogenics is disproportionate and does not even treat the disease, the cost outweighs the benefit and there is no reasonable objective way of knowing that future generations will revive the person and have a cure ready to treat the disease.[COLOR=“Blue”]Let’s assume that you had an incurable illness and could be placed in cryogenic suspension. You would not be clinically dead; revival might be possible, if a cure was found. Would this violate church teaching?