Cryonics (as we talk about it here) isn't meant to be research, it's more duct-tape engineering in the lack of a better option.
It seems V_V and others might be having a communications gap. I'll take a guess at the problem, please tell me if I'm wrong.
V_V is saying cryonics isn't proven, and has trouble advancing because we're not planning to revive cryogenically preserved corpses anytime soon and so won't get feedback. In particular, that on top of a fatal injury, you're adding trauma from freezing/chemicals, and that molecular damage will continue to accumulate.
Others are saying that cryonics is not intended as research nor as something in the same category as most medical proced...
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22129623.000-gunshot-victims-to-be-suspended-between-life-and-death.html?full=true
- First "official" program to practice suspended animation
- The article naturally goes on to ask whether longer SA (months, years) is possible
- Amazing quote: "Every day at work I declare people dead. They have no signs of life, no heartbeat, no brain activity. I sign a piece of paper knowing in my heart that they are not actually dead. I could, right then and there, suspend them. But I have to put them in a body bag. It's frustrating to know there's a solution."
- IMO this if (I hope!) successful, will go a long way to bridge the emotional gap for cryonics