Cryogenization and the right to test: a reflective analysis on the disposition of the body in the Ecuadorian legal context.

Abstract

The general objective of this academic study is to carry out an exhaustive analysis on cryogenics and the right to testate as an act of disposition of the body in the Ecuadorian legal context. This research aims to anticipate the legal challenges that inevitably arise as a consequence of globalization and technological and medical advances in this area. One of the findings of this study was that in Ecuador there are regulations for the handling and final disposal of corpses and human bones, as well as for the regulation of establishments that offer funeral services. Although this regulation refers to the freezing of corpses, it does not specify the possibility of legalizing cryogenics in complete human bodies.