X-Message-Number: 29115
From: Kennita Watson <>
Subject: Cryonics Q&A in FDGD Program Book -- rewrite
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 09:29:09 -0800

I've added a little about the difference between Bredo and
mainstream cryonics patients, put in a nod to KrioRus
(thanks, DS!) and my Web site (which should be much less
dull-looking by event time).

Note:  there is an earlier Q/A (not written by me) that goes:

"Q: How was he frozen?
A: Grandpa was originally packed in dry ice at an undertaker's
in Norway, then shipped to the Trans Time facility in Oakland,
California, where he moved from dry ice to the superior liquid
nitrogen for nearly four years.  He now rests in his original
steel coffin, which is packed tightly in dry ice in an insulated
wooden box stored in a Tuff Shed above Nederland, Colorado."

I am pleased that they included the word "superior".  Small joys.

Here's the latest version.  I have till Sunday to make changes
(it's due Monday), so please make any further suggestions ASAP.
Thanks!

Live long and prosper,
Kennita

-- new program book text follows --

Q: What is cryonics and why do I care?
A: Cryonics is a speculative technology that seeks to preserve human  
life at temperatures below -150 degrees Celsius or -238 degrees  
Fahrenheit, cold enough to halt all biological activity and decay (by  
contrast, Grandpa Bredo is stored in dry ice at only about -80  
degrees C or -110 degrees F).  All cryonics patients must be declared  
legally dead before they are quickly cryopreserved.  Just as persons  
once considered dead are now routinely revived using CPR, the goal is  
to remain suspended in the state after legal death and before  
clinical/irreversible death until medical nanotechnology can heal  
damage at the cellular and molecular levels to restore the patient to  
full health.

Q: How many people have done this and where are they?
A: More than one hundred fifty people and dozens of pets have been  
cryopreserved since the first case in 1967.  More than fifteen  
hundred people from around the world have made legal and financial  
arrangements for cryonics with various organizations.  Three  
organizations that preserve and store patients are Alcor Life  
Extension Foundation (www.alcor.org, 1-800-GO-ALCOR) in Scottsdale,  
Arizona, Cryonics Institute (www.cryonics.org, 1-586-791-5961) in  
Clinton Township, Michigan, and the newly-formed KrioRus (http:// 
www.kriorus.ru/english.html, +7-905-768-04-57) near Moscow, Russia --  
visit those sites and/or www.gocryo.org to find out more.

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