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 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=3245