X-Message-Number: 25842
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 09:28:33 -0500
From: Thomas Donaldson <>
Subject: for Coetzee

To Coetzee:

One class of cryonics patients consists of those with Alzheimer's
or other brain diseases. Alzheimer's patients, as a classic example
of the problem they provide for cryonics, are normally considered
to be still living when their upper brains have disappeared.

Any law which makes it harder to deal with such patients is a blow
against cryonics. Just how are we to get patients with Alzheimer's
suspended soon enough if they can't be "deanimated" even by 
starvation while they remain officially alive?

You say that there are methods of dealing with the problems caused
by such a law beforehand. Please tell  us all what these methods
are.

            Best wishes and long long life to all,

               Thomas Donaldson

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