X-Message-Number: 13822 From: Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 08:43:08 EDT Subject: cryonics loopholes In a message dated 6/2/00 2:02:54 AM Pacific Daylight Time, writes: << Canada has some cemetaries located in "permafrost", though such storage at near freezing temperatures is by itself of little use for cryonics purposes. >> Hi ! Thanks for your comments. I just wanted to clarify by my post I'm not talking about alternatives to cryonics, but ways of getting around legal loopholes. Anotherwords, by my comments I wasn't refering to permafrost burial (or other methods which have popped up now again) but ways of doing cryonics that meet legal loopholes. For example if a cryostat is technically stored "underground" or in a "family vault" in such countries that require burial, could that meet the legal definition of burial ? If the country requires cremation, but bodies may be donated for scientific reasearch, can that beat the loophole ? Are there countries in which cryonics is technically illegal, but if its done as a method of "embalming", could that bypass the loophole ? Ed Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=13822