X-Message-Number: 16991 Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 09:04:21 -0400 From: Thomas Donaldson <> Subject: CryoNet #16980 - #16989 A short comment for Mike Perry: No, brains do not liquefy shortly after death. Or even some time after death. It may well be that most brain cells lose their connections and other bad things happen, but the destruction isn't normally anything that we would call "liquefying". I do not mean that we could not produce such a consequence, only that it is not the normal effect. One major reason I say this is simply that doctors have been preserving brains gotten from bodies hours after death for some time. There is still information there... and this preservation is independent of cryonics and took place well before cryonics had been heard of by anyone. And yes, the actual destruction depends a lot on how the brains were treated both before and after they were obtained as specimens. It may or may not have destroyed the person IN the brain, but that is a separate issue... and much more subtle than "liquefaction" in any case. Best wishes and long long life for all, Thomas Donaldson Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=16991