Serious Advancement in Medical Science

[cronopolis]

Thanks for kinda backing me up and yet kinda belittling me Kyronea , the school system teaches me nothing, I've mainly learnt everything from games and the tube, but back to the subject... If the body is entirely frozen, then molecular degredation should halt, there by slowing or even stopping the aging proccess thus allowing for trips that could be 50 years in length.  Also, I was just throwing the idea for space travel applications for the next further advance in the field of cryogenics.  You can correct me if you think me wrong, but I thought its was stated that if a body is frozen at such an extreme low temperature, and at a rate that would'nt damage the cells like in frost bite, then IF you can revive the subject, then the things I mentioned would be plossible would they not?

[Kyronea]

Certainly. It's a bad idea for space travel, however, because if something goes wrong with the ship, no one will be awake to fix things, and we don't know what kind of power requirements something like bio stasis might require.

At the very least, I would ensure that any ship that has bio stasis passangers has a crew of some sort that are always awake...but if you do that, you'd need for them to have children, and you'd have to ensure a reasonable gene pool to avoid inbreeding and other possible problems since any ship like this would not be going at a speed that would reach any planet for hundreds of years. But, if you are going to do that, you might as well make the entire population of the ship generational instead of just the crew.

[MsBlack]

Perhaps  a sufficient number of people, if they utilised a rota, would only age a few years.

[cronopolis]

That is more along the lines of what I ment by what I said, and if we can perfect the method of almost instant revitalization of a frozen person then if something does go wrong with the ship then the neccesary people can be awoken to take care of things.  If they were to apply that to space travel then they'd develpoe some kinda radar to detect things in the way of the programed course, then the auto pilot of the ship would execute an evasion course then get back on the determined path when the obstical is avoided, see what I mean

[kian]

premed major. 
"Mitochondria control the process known as apoptosis, the programmed death of abnormal cells that is the body's primary defense against cancer"
apoptosis is programmed cellular death. examples of this would be the cells that make up the webbing of the fingers while in the womb.  apoptosis if why we dont have paddle, we have hands.  cancer is uncontrolled growth of cells.  metastasis and los of cellular proliferation is what kills us.
search all you want, the only way youll find anything that will reinforce this is if you look on a sci fi webpage.  neurons are extremely excitable and because of this excitability they have a high metabolic rate.  this means that they have a very high demand for o2.  without it they die.  neurons are extremely fragile and do not regenerate once they have been damaged, ask superman if you dont believe me.  so theoretically you could bring some one back, but they would be comotose, and thats like pulling the plug and putting it back in.  neurons are extremely excitable and because of this excitability they have a high metabolic rate.  this means that they have a very high demand for o2.  without it they die.  death will definitely not be overcome within any of our lifetimes. 
the md that wrote this should just run a "pain clinic" out of his house and hand out oxycotins to all the junkies and stop writing this garbage.

[cronopolis]

................I have been shamed