X-Message-Number: 5112
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 1995 16:22:38 -0500 (EST)
From: Robin Helweg-Larsen <>
Subject: Empty heads

As we get older, we lose brain mass.  Mike Darwin recently posted about 
someone with a golfball-sized brain tumor (I think) who was functioning 
normally and not even aware of a problem.  Presumably that would have 
caused (can I say?) headaches for a younger person.  Anyway, there's an 
increasing amount of available space as we age.

What about the idea of preparing for cryonic suspension, years in advance 
of clinical death, by placing a refrigeration unit inside the skull?  It 
need not be a golfball, it could have a more efficient shape, even extend 
out throughout the brain perhaps.

Then, on clinical death, plug it in and start freezing the brain down 
from the inside.  It could even be programmed to kick in in the event of 
a stroke or heart attack.  (I realize not all of this is 1995 technology...)

Always optimistically,

Robin HL


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