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Subject: CI's 63rd Patient
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 15:14:08 US/Eastern

              The Cryonics Institute's 63rd Patient


   A CI Member suffered a heart attack at home on
Monday. He was not discovered and pronounced dead
until several hours later. He was refrigerated at the morgue
and soon released to one of our funeral directors who held 
him at water-ice temperature for over a day while it was 
determined whether financing was available to cryopreserve.
Then he was cooled in dry ice for at least another day.

   The CI Patient is a big man:  6' 3" and weighing nearly 
300 pounds, he was too large for an insulated Ziegler
(steel shipping coffin). Laying on an air tray he used a 
prodigious amount of dry ice. He is currently being 
cooled to liquid nitrogen temperature. 

    It is not feasible to perfuse after several hours of warm 
ischemia because of clotting and vascular damage. But
neurological damage is slower and takes much longer. 
Dry ice cooling should have been initiated immediately
upon discovery. 

   In the hope of reducing the number of losses of cryonicists
living alone I have been testing two alarm systems with 
Robert Ettinger and plan soon to test a third. I will be 
reporting on my investigations in a forthcoming issue of 
THE IMMORTALIST. Information on subscribing to THE
IMMORTALIST can be found at 
     
      http://www.cryonics.org/info.html

         -- Ben Best, President
            Cryonics Institute       

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