X-Message-Number: 29441
From: "John de Rivaz" <>
Subject: autopsy
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:49:31 +0100

A letter has appeared in New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19425990.100-the-white-plague.html
in which it is suggested

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The other blunder that we have made is that the public and clinicians alike
have developed a distaste for autopsies, so many who die with TB must go to
their graves undiagnosed, possibly having infected their relatives and
carers.

All patients dying with a lung shadow that has not been positively
identified should be subjected to post-mortem examination, not for curiosity
but for reasons of public health.
<<<

I feel that cryonicists need to oppose calls for more compulsory dissections
of dead people. I don't think any reply should mention cryonics itself, as
this suggests a vested interest. Public revulsion, freedom of belief, the
impossibility of science disproving beliefs with absolute certainty, freedom
of choice with individual's own bodies are all angles that can be taken, and
no doubt many more.

You can write by sending email to


The more people that send letters the better, but please do not mention
cryonics. Cryonics people are few, but those that oppose dissection or other
violation of dead people are many.


-- 
Sincerely, John de Rivaz:  http://John.deRivaz.com for websites including
Cryonics Europe, Longevity Report, The Venturists, Porthtowan, Alec Harley
Reeves - inventor, Arthur Bowker - potter, de Rivaz genealogy,  Nomad .. and
more 

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