advancedatheist comments on On the unpopularity of cryonics: life sucks, but at least then you die - Less Wrong

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Comment author: advancedatheist 01 August 2011 05:10:53PM 1 point [-]

Revival from cryonics that involved growing a new biological body using the original DNA would have the broadest appeal,

We could just use organ printing to create a new body from the neck down. One of the scientists in this field mentions this as a possibility in an article he published in The Futurist a few years ago, though not in the context of a cryonics revival scenario:

http://sks.sirs.es.vrc.scoolaid.net/cgi-bin/hst-article-display?id=SNY5270-0-8423&artno=0000169222&type=ART&shfilter=U&key=Organs%20(Anatomy)&title=Beyond%20Cloning%3A%20Toward%20Human%20Printing&res=Y&ren=N&gov=Y&lnk=N&ic=N