Investigating the Issue of Death in the Cryogenic Process based on Mulla Sadra's View

Abstract

Death is a hierarchical process, and it is necessary for groups such as jurists and physicians to clarify its achievable dimensions, define its standards, and apply it. The category of the soul and its relation to the body can be traced back to Mulla Sadra's theory of essential movement. On the other hand, understanding the moral and religious norms of new topics in medicine requires an explanation of death. Cryopreservation is a new method of medicine in our time, and this method of bodily preservation can be studied from various doctrinal, philosophical, legal and ethical aspects. One of the biggest challenges facing this emerging method is determining the boundary between life and death, because this process occurs after the patient is declared dead. The current study analyzed the information using the descriptive analytical method and by searching for the concept of death in Mullah Sadra's theory of death, which is a divine theory.

Keywords

• cryonics
• death
• mulla sadra
• philosophy
• frostbite