Sure, but cryonics isn't religious, it's medical.
It is action taken based off premises. It indicates intent. Those instigating the punishment quite clearly do not intend for it to go beyond the cessation of all function in the body.
And information death is what happens with the current death penalty. Taking away information death would be changing the punishment's essential nature.
The current death penalty doesn't talk about cryonic preservation at all much less incorporate it as part of the essential nature. It is current death - and the cremation or burial of bodies rather than preservation - that results in information death.
Prohibiting cryonics is not the default state, the status quo. It would be an additional punishment.
Those instigating the punishment quite clearly do not intend for it to go beyond the cessation of all function in the body.
This is not clear to me. It could just as easily be that the intent is for the person's memories to be completely erased from the body in order that the person would not be able to return to life and commit the same crimes again. Otherwise it would not be as much of a punishment.
Prohibiting cryonics is not the default state, the status quo. It would be an additional punishment.
From a legal rights standpoint perhaps this is corre...
If someone is sentenced to life in prison or the death penalty, should they also be prohibited from signing up for cryonics? Specifically, I'm referring to people like these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_death_row_inmates
I am not talking about providing it for them, just allowing them to sign up for it provided they can somehow get enough money together and allowing a response team into the prison to retrieve the body after the prisoner has died or been executed by lethal injection. I think they should be allowed access to cryonics, because we don't know enough yet about the brain to determine how much of their criminal behavior is due to mental illness/disorder and how much is due to free will. It may be possible to diagnose and cure people like Jeffrey Dahmer in the future before they commit any crimes, or to cure those already in prison such that they won't commit any more crimes.
As cryonics gets more and more popular, this will become an issue, especially when the first death row inmate wants to sign up for it.