X-Message-Number: 2441 From: whscad1!kqb (Kevin Q Brown +1 201 386 7344) Subject: CRYONICS Risk of Undetected Death The following message from the USENET comp.risks news group unintentionally shows a risk for cryonic suspension members. If the woman in the story below had been a suspension member, the suspension team would have been notified three years too late! Kevin Q. Brown INTERNET or PS: Messages 276 and 277 (Feb. 1991) discuss the need for a heart monitor connected to an automatic dialer. What is the status of such monitoring devices today? ----- RISKS-LIST: RISKS-FORUM Digest Tuesday 5 October 1993 Volume 15 : Issue 06 FORUM ON RISKS TO THE PUBLIC IN COMPUTERS AND RELATED SYSTEMS ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy, Peter G. Neumann, moderator . . . > Date: Sun, 19 Sep 93 17:44:18 PDT > From: "Alan Frisbie" <> > Subject: Dead for 3 years, but computer kept paying bills From the Reuters News Service, printed in The Los Angeles Times Sunday, September 19, 1993: Computers Paid Bills as Woman in Sweden Lay Dead for 3 Years Stockholm -- The body of an elderly woman who died in 1990 lay undiscovered in her apartment for more than three years while computers received her pension and automatically paid her bills, Swedish police said Saturday. "It's very unusual for someone to be dead so long without anyone else reacting," a police duty officer in the Stockholm suburb of Farsta told the national news agency TT. The woman's last-opened mail was dated May 11, 1990, police said, indicating she had died at the age of 72. Her name has not been made public. Police were called to break into the apartment by its landlord after he had made repeated efforts to gain the occupant's permission to renovate it. Alan E. Frisbie, Flying Disk Systems, Inc., 4759 Round Top Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90065 (213) 256-2575 (voice) (213) 258-3585 (FAX) [Also noted by Trevor Jenkins . The RISKS archives also show a previous similar case. PGN] ----- Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=2441