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 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=25842