X-Message-Number: 4484 From: Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 22:08:24 -0400 Subject: #4480 A couple of quick comments on Eugen Leitl's #4480: 1. Life insurance would not necessarily be ruled out to fund cases of suicide or euthanasia prior to cryostasis. It is highly unlikely that such cases would materially affect the mortality tables. 2. Non-destructive scanning? I haven't checked the numbers or done the arithmetic, but I have a vague impression that worth-while information might be obtained by recording the natural radiation from a frozen patient, over extended time. Natural radiation, of course, is not completely non-destructive, but it is unavoidable in any case. (There are also other possibilities, which I don't have time to mention here.) Robert Ettinger Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=4484