From what I understand, the idea is that cryonics is about cooling a person’s body down (cold storage, perhaps?) so that it is preserved for a future physician to resuscitate and heal. Basically, the idea is that the person is not dead, yet, by future medical standards that is, and if we can find a way to get them to the physicians of the future, they can still be saved. Most of the proponents of cryonics that I know do not believe this is resurrecting the dead, anymore than CPR is. They often mention 100 years or so ago, when your heart stopped beating, you were dead. We now know that is not the case. They hope that the same will apply here, except the “patient” will still have a chance of being resuscitated.
Is that morally objectionable? I can not see how it is but I am merely a layman. I do not know if the Church has said anything about cryonics.
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