Cryonics (2012 novel)

Cryonics is a 2012 book written by Francisco Cesar Pinheiro Rodrigues.

Synopsis
"Cryonics" is a novel – not science-fiction – involving the technique of freezing human beings soon after death, with the hope that they can be thawed when their diseases, now incurable, are no longer. Technique not achieved due to lack of research funding. NASA spent billions of dollars to put the Perseverance robot on Mars. With the millionth part of that expense, he would already have the technique of freezing astronauts in extra-planetary exploration. The novel unfolds in the day-to-day life of waiting for the death of a former Brazilian banker, cancerous, accused of killing his wife, telling his brother about the course of his life, the memory of the women he “met”, in the sense biblical or platonic, recording the dialogues in a recorder. He does this because he expects the jurist brother to take advantage of this material by writing a book that he, the patient, “would complement” after his “return to life”. In this one, he would tell what he saw, personally, at the end of the “tunnel of light”, as described by people who suffered the experience of “near death”.