X-Message-Number: 5543 Date: Sat, 6 Jan 1996 18:01:49 -0500 From: "Keith F. Lynch" <> Subject: Re: More on Michels tragedy In #5536, Steve Bridge <> writes: > How can we best educate police forces and medical examiners to the > legalities of cryonic suspension, including whole body anatomical > donation? Perhaps the bracelets and wallet cards should say that the cryonics organization should be contacted even if the body is in an advanced state of decay. Of course paramedics might not look at any medic-alert types of things for a patient who is obviously dead. But apparently they did in Michels' case, so perhaps it would have helped. On the other hand, it's quite likely that the police were correct. That it was, in fact, too late to do anything for him. If so, then getting them to call the cryonics organization isn't particularly useful, given that the goal isn't simply to freeze something but to restore the patient to life and health. The solution then would be some kind of alarm. I've read that married people tend to live longer than single people. I wonder to what extent that's because a spouse acts as an alarm by getting medical help when necessary. -- Keith Lynch, http://www.access.digex.net/~kfl/ Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=5543