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Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 13:49:55 EDT
Subject: "Dude, where's your fact checking?"

In a message dated 5/4/2007 4:03:33 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
 writes:

Cryobiologists routinely freeze and recover freefloating cells and tiny  
clumps such as embryos, but freezing and reviving whole organs (or  
organisms) is outside the reach of current technology. Scientists know,  for 
example, that a frozen brain generally has ripped axons, hemorrhaged  
capillaries, unravelled myelin, extruded cell contents in the  extracellular 
space, and other gross alterations. For this reason, experts  doubt human 
memory can survive cryosuspension and believe cryonic  suspension is almost 
surely a waste of money.

The previous sentence  is, though, in the small print of every commercial for 
the dozens of  mainly American companies that will turn you into a human 
corpsicle to  store your chilled earthly remains indefinitely.




HO HO HO!

This excerpt in turn excerpted from Daniel Wilson's  book/article  reprinted 
from today's cryonet was a disappointment.
 
The guy may or not have gotten his facts right about other new  techs...
 
And I will leave comment on the first paragraph to Brian Wowk and/or other  
technical researchers in cryonics/cryobiology.
 
But, it takes just a short net search to find there are exactly TWO  
companies currently accepting cryonics clients.  

Can anyone reach  Daniel Wilson and educate him a bit?
 
Regards,
 
Rudi

Rudi Richard Hoffman CFP  CLU ChFC

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