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[[Cryonics]] is a [[pseudoscience]] that tries to extend life or achieve immortality in a non-theistic way after a person is legally dead (Cryonic procedures are performed shortly after a person's death).<ref>Multiple references:
 
[[Cryonics]] is a [[pseudoscience]] that tries to extend life or achieve immortality in a non-theistic way after a person is legally dead (Cryonic procedures are performed shortly after a person's death).<ref>Multiple references:
 
*[http://dujs.dartmouth.edu/winter-2012/cryogenesis-a-review#.VDHE0RYy5l4 "Cryogenesis: A Review"] (March 11, 2012). Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science website.  Retrieved on October 6, 2014.
 
*[http://dujs.dartmouth.edu/winter-2012/cryogenesis-a-review#.VDHE0RYy5l4 "Cryogenesis: A Review"] (March 11, 2012). Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science website.  Retrieved on October 6, 2014.
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*Barbaro, Valerie (17 June 2011).  [http://thehumanist.com/july-august-2011/heaven-for-atheists/ "Heaven for atheists"].  TheHumanist.com.  Retrieved on October 6, 2014.</ref>  Atheists [[Robert Ettinger]] and [[Isaac Asimov]] played a notable role in the founding of the cryonics movement.<ref>
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*Barbaro, Valerie (17 June 2011).  [http://thehumanist.com/july-august-2011/heaven-for-atheists/ "Heaven for atheists"].  TheHumanist.com.  Retrieved on October 6, 2014.</ref>  Atheists [[Robert Ettinger]] and [[Isaac Asimov]] played a notable role in the founding of the cryonics movement.<ref>Multiple references:
 
*[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/science-obituaries/8658435/Robert-Ettinger.html "Robert Ettinger"] (July 24, 2011).  The Telegraph website.  Retrieved October 6, 2014.  "Despite his Jewish roots, he grew up a determined atheist."
 
*[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/science-obituaries/8658435/Robert-Ettinger.html "Robert Ettinger"] (July 24, 2011).  The Telegraph website.  Retrieved October 6, 2014.  "Despite his Jewish roots, he grew up a determined atheist."
 
*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 Robert C. W. Ettinger].  Longecity.org.  Retrieved October 6, 2014.
 
*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 Robert C. W. Ettinger].  Longecity.org.  Retrieved October 6, 2014.
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*[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
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*Pascal, David (November/December 2005).  [http://www.cryonicssociety.org/articles_mensajournal.html "A brain is a terrible thing to waste.  Mensans, cryonics, and the fight to extend human life"].  Mensa Bulletin.  Retrieved from The Cryonics Society website on October 6, 2014.
 
*[http://www.cryonicssociety.org/aboutcryonics_critics.html "Cryonics and critics"] (2012).  The Cryonics Society website.  Retrieved on October 6, 2014.</ref>  According to The Cryonics Society, Asimov said of cryonics, "Though no one can quantify the probability of cryonics working, I estimate it is at least 90%..."<ref>[http://www.cryonicssociety.org/aboutcryonics_critics.html "Cryonics and critics"] (2012).  The Cryonics Society website.  Retrieved on October 6, 2014.</ref>  For more information, please see: [[Atheism and cryonics]]
 
*[http://www.cryonicssociety.org/aboutcryonics_critics.html "Cryonics and critics"] (2012).  The Cryonics Society website.  Retrieved on October 6, 2014.</ref>  According to The Cryonics Society, Asimov said of cryonics, "Though no one can quantify the probability of cryonics working, I estimate it is at least 90%..."<ref>[http://www.cryonicssociety.org/aboutcryonics_critics.html "Cryonics and critics"] (2012).  The Cryonics Society website.  Retrieved on October 6, 2014.</ref>  For more information, please see: [[Atheism and cryonics]]
  
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