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 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=2482