Legal and ethical applicability of body cryopreservation

Body cryopreservation (cryonics), is an experimental medical procedure aimed at bringing legally declared people back to life by bringing them to the medical advances of the future. Ultra-low temperatures (-196 °C) are used to prevent postmortem changes observed on the corpse under natural conditions in the post-mortem period and to suspend metabolism activities in order to maintain the body (cellular size) for an indefinite period of time. Since the early studies in the early 1960s, cryopreservation practice has become an evidence-based practice that uses emergency medical procedures and modern vitrification technologies to eliminate ice formation from a theoretical concept. Since the body cryopreservation procedure is not legally regulated in any region except for the state of British Columbia (Canada) worldwide, it is an issue with a general gap outside the relevant state. Since there is no direct norm that prohibits body cryopreservation, the cases that have been the subject of litigation in courts so far have been analyzed according to existing legal rules and crime types. Considering that law and ethics science will be shaped according to changing social conditions, it is likely that various regulations will be adopted by lawmakers over time. In the study, the related medical procedure, which has increased in popularity with the technological advances in the process, and which has been at the center of the discussions, has been examined under the title of "Legal and Ethical Applicability of Body Cryopreservation". The study consists of five chapters: The first chapter is "death and postmortem changes"; the second part is ''disposal methods on the corpse''; the third part is ''cryopreservation''; the fourth part is ''legal aspect of cryopreservation''; and the fifth part is ''ethical aspect of cryopreservation''.