Editing Life extension (section)

=== Cryonics ===
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Cryonics is the [[Cryopreservation|low-temperature freezing]] (usually at {{cvt|−196|C|F K|disp=or}}) of a human corpse, with the hope that [[wikt:resuscitate|resuscitation]] may be possible in the [[future]].<ref>{{cite news| vauthors = McKie R |title=Cold facts about cryonics|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2002/jul/14/medicalscience.science|access-date=1 December 2013|newspaper=[[The Observer]]|date=13 July 2002|quote=Cryonics, which began in the Sixties, is the freezing – usually in liquid nitrogen – of human beings who have been legally declared dead. The aim of this process is to keep such individuals in a state of refrigerated limbo so that it may become possible in the [[future]] to resuscitate them, cure them of the condition that killed them, and then restore them to functioning life in an era when medical science has triumphed over the activities of the Grim Reaper.
}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | vauthors = Day E |title=Dying is the last thing anyone wants to do – so keep cool and carry on|url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/oct/11/cryonics-booms-in-us|access-date=21 February 2016|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=10 October 2015}}</ref> It is regarded with [[skepticism]] within the mainstream scientific community and has been characterized as [[quackery]].<ref>{{cite book | vauthors = Butler K |title=A Consumer's Guide to "Alternative" Medicine |publisher=Prometheus Books |year=1992 |page=173}}</ref>