X-Message-Number: 20018 Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 09:34:20 -0400 From: Thomas Donaldson <> Subject: CryoNet #20013 - #20017 For David Stodolsky: I'm glad to see that you're still interested in cryonics, despite your distance from cryonics centers. As for the monk, it sounds at best as a form of embalming. That's fine if you want your body to stay around after your self is gone. As for starvation, the intent is not to preserve one's body directly by that means, but to be preserved by cryonic suspension rather than autopsied. I believe I have already explained the legal problem which it "solves", right now so far as it could be solved. Best and long long life to all, Thomas Donaldson PS: I say embalming because no one seems to have dissected part (even a small and unnoticeable part) of this Zen monk to see how well his brain was preserved. That would only take a wide needle inserted into the brain, and pulled out to examine the cells, just as brain tumors are examined now. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=20018