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From: "John de Rivaz" <>
Subject: Re: a rationale for organ donation
Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2010 09:10:57 +0100

Unfortunately organ donation and cryonics don't mix.


It has been suggested before that people could strike some sort of bargain with 
the authorities: allow my head (or brain) to be cryopreserved, and you can have 
anything else that is left.

There are two objection to this.
1. The authorities don't bargain with citizens or patients. 

2. The procedures for cryonics aim to benefit the patient, whereas the protocols
for organ or tissue donation aim to benefit the recipient of the parts, and 
some of these conflict.


If someone is an organ donor, once they are declared dead, they become  "a 
remains" - not a person but an object to be cannibalised for spare parts. The 
person has "gone to heaven". What is left is regarded as being no different to a
finger nail clipping, for example. Once anything useful has been removed, what 
is left after that is disposed of according to funerary custom. If the "funerary
custom" happens to be cryonics, then what is left has a chance of reanimation 
that is as close to zero as one could hope to get.

-- 
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

 writes:


[... By
also being an organ donor, anyone interested in cryonics would benefit from 
medically provided heparin, as well as body cooling.]


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