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Due to their harsh notion of God, Muslims have a significant amount of death anxiety.<ref>[http://epiphenom.fieldofscience.com/2012/03/fear-of-death-is-highest-among-muslims.html Fear of death is highest among Muslims] By Tomas Rees on Saturday, March 24, 2012]</ref>
Due to their harsh notion of God, Muslims have a significant amount of death anxiety.<ref>[http://epiphenom.fieldofscience.com/2012/03/fear-of-death-is-highest-among-muslims.html Fear of death is highest among Muslims] By Tomas Rees on Saturday, March 24, 2012]</ref>
== Atheism and cryonics ==
[[File:Cryonics.jpg|thumbnail|right|200px|The adherents of [[cryonics]] put the deceased person in cryonic suspension via cooling and perfusing the corpse with cryoprotective solutions.<ref>[http://www.transtime.com/cryintro/cryproto.htm Cryonic Suspension Protocol]</ref><ref>[http://dujs.dartmouth.edu/winter-2012/cryogenesis-a-review#.VDHE0RYy5l4 Cryogenesis: A Review], Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science, In Winter 2012/ March 11, 2012</ref>]]
''See also:'' [[Atheism and cryonics]] and [[Atheist cults]]
[[Cryonics]] is a [[pseudoscience]] that tries to extend life or achieve immortality in a non-theistic way after the person is legally declared dead.<ref>[http://dujs.dartmouth.edu/winter-2012/cryogenesis-a-review#.VDHE0RYy5l4 Cryogenesis: A Review], Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science, In Winter 2012/ March 11, 2012</ref><ref>[http://thehumanist.com/july-august-2011/heaven-for-atheists/ Heaven for atheists - TheHumanist.com]</ref>
Robert Ettinger was an atheist and American academic who some consider to be "the father of cryonics" because of the impact of his 1962 book ''The Prospect of Immortality''.<ref>"[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/science-obituaries/8658435/Robert-Ettinger.html Robert Ettinger]". The Telegraph. July 24, 2011. Retrieved May 1, 2013. "Despite his Jewish roots, he grew up a determined atheist."</ref><ref>Klein, Bruce (August 13, 2004). "[http://www.longecity.org/forum/topic/4112-the-father-of-cryonics-robert-c-w-ettinger/ The Father of Cryonics], Robert C. W. Ettinger, Interview with Bruce Klein". Immortality Institute. Retrieved May 24, 2009.</ref> Evan Cooper was also a founding father of the cryonics movement and he was a very private man and there may be no record of his [[worldview]] as far as whether he was an atheist, [[agnosticism|agnostic]] or [[theism|theist]].<ref>[http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/dsp.cgi?msg=23124 Evan Cooper and the cryonics movement]</ref> Cooper abandoned the cryonics movement after he felt that the extension of life through cryonics would not be achievable in his lifetime.<ref>[http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/dsp.cgi?msg=23124 Evan Cooper and the cryonics movement]</ref>
According to The Cryonics Society:
{{cquote|Ettinger's reflections on the work of Rostand and other scientists led him to collect his ideas on cryonics into a book. Doubleday, the publishers, sent a review copy to Mensan [[Isaac Asimov]], who gave it a clean scientific bill of health. The book appeared in nine languages, four editions, and became the bible of the cryonics movement. Ettinger found himself appearing on Time and Newsweek and nationwide TV.<ref>[http://www.cryonicssociety.org/articles_mensajournal.html A Brain Is A Terrible Thing To Waste Mensans, Cryonics, and The Fight To Extend Human Life] by David Pascal, Published in the November/December 2005 issue of Mensa Bulletin</ref>}}
Isaac Asimov was an atheist.<ref>[http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/219935-i-am-an-atheist-out-and-out-it-took-me Isaac Asimov quote]</ref>
=== Atheist cognitive scientist Marvin Minsky endorsed cryonics ===
The atheist and American cognitive scientist Marvin Minsky was one of 63 scientists who signed an open letter endorsing the concept of [[cryonics]].<ref>Source that says he is an atheist: Leon M. Lederman, Judith A. Scheppler (2001). "Marvin Minsky: Mind Maker". Portraits of Great American Scientists. Prometheus Books. p. 74. ISBN 9781573929325. "Another area where he "goes against the flow" is in his spiritual beliefs. As far as religion is concerned, he's a confirmed atheist. "I think it [religion] is a contagious mental disease. . . . The brain has a need to believe it knows a reason for things."</ref><ref>"[http://www.evidencebasedcryonics.org/scientists-open-letter-on-cryonics/ Scientists Open Letter on Cryonics]"</ref>
=== Larry King and cryonics ===
In 2011, ''The Telegraph'' in an article entitled ''On Larry King and an atheist's fear of death'' reported about the atheist [[Larry King]], "Larry King, the former [[CNN]] broadcaster, made the news this morning after saying he wants to be frozen after his death, so that he can be revived when medical technology improves.<ref>[http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tomchiversscience/100122576/on-larry-king-and-an-atheists-fear-of-death/ On Larry King and an atheist's fear of death]</ref>
== See also ==
== See also ==
*[[Christian apologetics websites|Evidence for Christianity]]
*[[Christian apologetics websites|Evidence for Christianity]]
*[[Resources for leaving atheism and becoming a Christian]]
*[[Resources for leaving atheism and becoming a Christian]]
== External links ==
*[https://www.raptureready.com/rr-atheism.html Atheism: The Cult of Death] by Todd Strandberg
*[http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/09/15/author-and-former-militant-atheist-reveals-what-led-him-to-christianity/ Former ‘Militant Atheist’ Reveals What Totally Changed His Mind About Death, God and the Afterlife] by Billy Hallowell
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