X-Message-Number: 31872 Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:02:43 +0200 (CEST) From: Subject: No Suspension by Plastination in Germany Press article http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,614006,00.html shows rumors that Michael Jackson is getting plastination. However, this does not look like a cheap alternative to initial suspension for the client of a cryonics organization. The harvesting of tissue for plastinates works with the rights for autopsy. Autopsy prior to a burial happens in hospitals as well as in anatomy institutes. Anatomy institutes provide places where University students take their dissection lessons. There are also a few anatomy institutes producing plastinates instead of using the corpses for autopsy during educational anatomy lessons and research. Transfer of a corpse to an anatomy institute is allowed when the deceased person made a last will about it. That testamentary disposition for a BODY DONATION is different than an agreement for an ORGAN DONATION. Surgery lessons and scientific research on the corpse in an anatomy institute waive the duty for timely destruction of all human remains. But when lessons and research have been accomplished, all the remaining tissues must be buried without notice. Manufacturers of plastinates don't have the right to waive the duty for a timely destruction of human remains. Plastinates aren't required for a burial, because the lawyers of plastinate manufacturers can claim that these aren't human remains but anatomical samples from ANONYMIZED DONORS which have been produced due to the destruction of aforementioned remains. Maximum production time which causes the destruction of human remains is only one day after receipt of a corpse. Then the manufacturer arranges the burial of any tissue which didn't made into production. Anonymization prior to a BODY DONATION to an anatomy institute is required. There is no control over the donation of a body for plastination. So it is fairly impossible for people to make cheap arrangements where the legal advantages of anonymization by COMPLETE DESTRUCTION of human remains can be replaced by different means to make sure that the former living owner of the brain can be identified. Press article http://www.kirchen.ch/pressespiegel/nzz/0199.htm in German language shows that costs for the creation of a plastinate can be easily forty-thousand US Dollars. Press article http://www.zitty.de/magazin/41967/ in German language shows that public relations by manufacturers require that plastinates should be purchased only by institutes who are publicly recognized for research and education. So it is likely that institutes who perform something like cryonics are not allowed to purchase a plastinate of their client's brain for later retrieval of personal characteristics ingrown in the brain's structure. Above essay sent to and Plantschen oder Grog? Der Arcor-Wetterdienst weiss Bescheid! Wassertemperaturen fur den Urlaub jetzt checken: www.arcor.de/rd/wetter_wasser Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=31872