X-Message-Number: 16282 Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 17:55:54 -0500 From: Ken Wolfe <> Subject: Re: #16277 Kryos News #6 References: <> > Message #16277 > From: > Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 21:37:11 EDT > Subject: KRYOS NEWS # 6 ... > One "luxury" cryopatients have is that we know they are going to die soon. > While this state of affairs is normally hardly an advantage, in the setting > of cryoTransport it can be of enormous benefit. A second somewhat less > ambiguous luxury they enjoy is that once they become cryopatients they are > legally and medically dead and thus outside the reach of the vast and killing > burden of government regulation. In particular, they are free of control by > those statues that prevent the use of non-government approved medical > devices, drugs and techniques. This means that US Food and Drug > Administration (FDA) approval is not necessary before a promising therapy is > applied to cryopatients after legal death is properly pronounced. I assume "those statues that prevent..." is supposed to be "those statutes that prevent..." (spell-checking software has its limits) -- Ken Wolfe Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada http://www.mts.net/~kenwolfe/ Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=16282