X-Message-Number: 14894
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 13:40:03 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug Skrecky <>
Subject: Frogs, fish and hope

In Message #14887 "Marta Sandberg" wrote:

>On the other hand, almost all Western countries have a 
>system in place to harvest and preserve donor organs....
>Wouldn t it be great if we could coat-tail on existing medical 
>superstructure? Available anywhere and any time?
>
  I'd thought this idea had some merit as well. Alcor is after all 
concentrating on head freezing. Seems there is some problem with 
organs from bodies loaded with cryoprotectant being unsuitable for
transplantation.
  To make this work one would have to remove the head/brain from the 
body before loading with cryoprotectant. For some reason there 
appears to be no interest in this possibility from either Alcor, or CI.

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