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From: Gerald Monroe <>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 20:42:12 -0600
Subject: Re: CryoNet #33340

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         Oregon death with dignity act :

Proposal : Use the death with dignity act to perform suspended animations.
I use the word "suspended animation" to differentiate a cryonics procedure
where the patient is actually physiologically dead several minutes at a
minimum and a preservation where the patient never physiologically dies at
all.

     Criteria :  Patient must be terminally ill with less than 6 months left
(won't help patients developing dementia, alas), must convince 2 physicians,
must wait 15 days.

Proposal : Have a physician prescribe a patient a "lethal" dose of drugs
that will stop the heart and cause loss of consciousness but not cause
destruction of neurons.  Patient is connected to a shut down bypass machine,
with a cryonics team that is fully ready for a complete preservation
standing by in the next room.  Patient self administers the drugs when
ready, cryonics team gets ready, the very moment the patient's heart stops
the team rushes in the room.  Hyper-oxygenate the patient beforehand, and
take other measures to protect from a minute or two of ischemia.  I think it
is reasonable to think that doing this way would allow far more consistent
outcomes than the current method.

        I KNOW that I am not the first person to think of this.  It is
immediate and obvious once you look at the case reports that Mike Darwin has
published.  The best case he ever did still had some ischemia because the
patient was not connected to bypass from the beginning.  Better preservation
boost the likelihood of revivals with acceptable amounts of memory loss.

     Why doesn't Alcor or CI have a lab in Oregon to take advantage of this
law?

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