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'''Suspended animation''', or '''cryogenic stasis''', was the temporary cessation of a life form's vital functions, often used to transport individuals from one time period to another without ageing.

In [[6087]], [[human]]s placed themselves in suspended animation on the [[Nerva Beacon]] in order to survive the [[solar flare]]s that devastated [[Earth]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ark in Space]]'') Millions of years later, much of humanity was miniaturised and placed in suspended animation on the [[Ark]] to survive the long voyage to [[Refusis II]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ark]]'')

[[Davros]] was sentenced to be placed in suspended animation as punishment for his crimes. ([[TV]]: ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks]]'') [[Tranquil Repose]] placed dying millionaires and politicians in suspended animation until cures for their conditions could be found. ([[TV]]: ''[[Revelation of the Daleks]]'')

In [[1901]], [[Torchwood Three]] placed [[Jack Harkness]] (who had been buried alive since [[27]] A.D.) in cryogenic suspension so he could return to [[2009]] without crossing his own time stream. ([[TV]]: ''[[Exit Wounds]]'') In [[1918]], they placed [[Tommy Brockless]] in cryogenic suspension so that he could one day close a fracture in the [[Cardiff Space-Time Rift]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[To the Last Man]]'') In [[2009]], Jack placed his brother [[Gray]] in cryogenic suspension after chloroforming him when he threatened Cardiff and fatally wounded Jack's teammate, [[Toshiko Sato]]. He planned to keep Gray frozen indefinitely until he could find a way to sort out the anger his brother harboured towards him. ([[TV]]: ''[[Exit Wounds]]'') However, the Torchwood Hub was destroyed when a bomb implanted inside Jack detonated. It is unknown if the cyrogenic chambers of the Hub survived the explosion. ([[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day One]])''

The [[Seventh Doctor]] once spent unspecified millions of years in a coma, frozen within a block of [[ice]]. Though his clothing had mostly rotted away over the years, his body survived and he recovered fully. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Frozen Time]]'')

[[Abigail Pettigrew]] was cryogenically frozen by [[Elliot Sardick]] against a loan of 4,500 [[gideon]]s to her family. She suffered from a fatal disease that would soon claim her life unless she remained frozen. Her family kept her in this state, hoping a cure would be found for her condition. She remained frozen past Elliot's ownership and was passed down to his son, [[Kazran Sardick]]. The [[Eleventh Doctor]] woke her to calm a [[sky shark]] hunting himself and a younger Kazran by singing to it. The Doctor went back in time to alter Kazran's past when he refused to let a passenger ship in peril land in [[Sardicktown]]. He continued to visit Kazran every year at [[Christmas Eve]], waking up Abigail each time. Abigail's life expectancy was limited to a very small number of days estimated by a counter on her stasis pod, which fell by one each time she was removed from cryogenic freeze. Though Kazran and Abigail fell in love with each other, her counter ran down to one final day, which he witheld until he became an old man for a last outing with her on Christmas Eve. ([[TV]]: ''[[A Christmas Carol (TV story)|A Christmas Carol]]'')

In [[1893]], [[Winifred Gillyflower]] used diluted [[red leech]] venom to create a chemical form of suspended animation to preserve her followers at [[Sweetville]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Crimson Horror]]'')

In [[2119]], the pilot of the ship picked up by [[the Drum]] was thought to be suspended in a suspended animation chamber. ([[TV]]: ''[[Under the Lake (TV story)|Under the Lake]]'')