X-Message-Number: 2482
From:  (Thomas Donaldson)
Subject: CRYONICS: re: cryonics #2478
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1993 10:41:35 -0800 (PST)

Yes. Currently, if we can't reach you in time, we can't get cryoprotectant
in. In some very bad cases (like people found dead hours after their 
murder) we would simply freeze the brain.

I would point out that if you join there are lots of things you can do to
decrease the probability of such a thing happening. If you don't, then
you are much more likely to be someone brought in after death and frozen
straight, without additives. (A benefit of joining a cryonics society!).

Can such people be revived? About the only thing I can honestly say, right
now, is that their revival will certainly be harder than reviving those
who were reached in time. It might be several hundred years harder ... or
even (unlikly) thousands of years harder. Impossible? I don't think that
we know enough to argue that it would be impossible.

Best and long long life,

Thomas Donaldson

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