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. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=16131