X-Message-Number: 16131
From: "John de Rivaz" <>
References: <>
Subject: Re: determine causes of death 
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 10:40:36 +0100

If someone is severely injured but not killed by physical accident, or as a
result of being given a disease, or as a result of ageing or degenerative
disease, then no one suggests that he is killed to find out the cause of his
injury. If Kryos (or anyone else) can demonstrate that reversible
cryopreservation is possible, then cryopreservation will "merely" be a
medical procedure like any other and the courts and indeed society as a
whole will not allow patients to be dissected whilst alive in order to find
out what caused their condition.

The big problem, of course, is that once cryopreservation becomes a medical
procedure it will be highly regulated and several orders of magnitude more
expensive.

Before this, cryopreservation may be relatively cheap, but people run the
risk of being killed (from the point of view of a future where reanimations
are proved to be possible) as "punishment" for dying under the wrong
circumstances. On http://www.autopsychoice.com I have set out suggestions as
to how the law could be changed to improve this situation.

Sincerely, John de Rivaz
my homepage links to Longevity Report, Fractal Report, music, Inventors'
report, an autobio and various other projects:
http://www.geocities.com/longevityrpt
http://www.autopsychoice.com - http://www.cryonics-europe.org -
http://www.porthtowan.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "CryoNet" <>
To: <>
> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 19:26:04 +0000 ()
> From: Louis Epstein <>
> Subject: Replies to CryoNet #16116-#16124
> But how can we determine causes of death when they need determining?
> Until death is defeated,we need autopsies in certain cases.



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