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/

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