X-Message-Number: 3245
From:   (Brian Wowk)
Newsgroups: sci.cryonics
Subject: Re: Frozen alive
Date: 11 Oct 1994 05:54:08 GMT
Message-ID: <37d9a0$>
References: <>

In <>  (KRISTIAN HEIDE) writes:

>Has anyone yet taken the step of voluntarely being frozen down while still 
>alive? Uhm, well... I guess there would be a problem with the law, wouldn't 

	Just so that there are no misunderstanding about this, it is
important to realize that the technology required to revive frozen
people will not be available for at least another century.  Freezing
someone for the sake of freezing them would be a pretty useless
experiment given that we know what the result would be: Another
freeze-injured patient who must wait a hundred years for treatment.

	The contemporary dividing line between life and death is a
very arbitrary one for cryonics anyway.  Cryonics patients are routinely
placed on heart-lung support within minutes of cardiac arrest, and
sometimes even require general anaesthesia.  If the law was changed
to allow "pre-mortem" cryopreservations, in most cases the chief
advantage would be logistical (related to planning and predictability)
rather than medical.

					--- Brian Wowk 

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