Abstract
Abstract This paper explores the phenomenon of cryogenics, and its impact on current conceptualizations about death within social psychology. As an alternative to traditional death ritualization, evaluation of the use of cryonic suspension is offered to show how the technique accommodates the denial of death, feeds on narcissistic values, and aids in the secularization of technology over religion. Finally, the fundamental dichotomy of life and death is shown to be challenged by a cryogenia/cryophobia dialectic, whereby enabling technology has created an epistemological space for a new socially constructed identity within the logic of two polarized dichotomies of human social life.
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