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Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 10:48:23 EDT
Subject: emergency treatment

>Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 04:11:55 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Doug Skrecky <>
>Subject: another object lesson

>In Message #11539  wrote:

>>local funeral director to stabilize the person by packing in dry ice.
>>This would be an extremely crude freezing,

> I would like to suggest that a combination of a mild chemical fixation
>and cryoprotectant perfusion would be significantly better procedure for
>"marginal" cases than a straight freeze. One might accomplish both
>with ethylene glycol.

Yes--there are also other procedures that would probably be better than a 
straight freeze. But in dealing with a situation where everyone with any 
authority or responsibility is reluctant to do anything, and there has 
already been considerable delay, the question is not so much what in theory 
might be done, but what in practice can be done. Minimal delay, minimal 
expense, and minimal decision making all point to a straight freeze as the 
best result we are likely to get--and in these kinds of situations we seldom 
get even that. 

Robert Ettinger
Cryonics Institute
Immortalist Society
http://www.cryonics.org

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