X-Message-Number: 5696
Date: 02 Feb 96 07:32:26 EST
From: DOLINOFF <>
Subject: Cryonics and S.F.


                                                  In the message #5690, Keith F.
                                                  LYNCH writes :

    > Are there any cryonicists who  *aren't*  SF readers ?  <
                                                
                                                  At least, a second.  I find
nothing common between Mr Robert ETTINGER's Movement and SF, the latter beeing

for me only a poor amusement making you only to waste your time.  But it is also
true that I find questionable the credibility in the success of the cryogenic

suspensions made till now whithout a multiple cannulation nor by the reanimation
team itself in the hospital, on the very table on which the patient just ceased
to breathe.
                                                  In demonstrating that the
(very little) heart of a rat can beat again after having been immersed in LN2
for 5 minutes, the PRETORIA team has shown  that a little biological organ can
survive freezing.  But it remains that it will be necessary to find for each
human organ and tissue the appropriate program of decreasing in temperature and

increasing of the cryoprotectant concentration.  And  it remains questionable if
a technique  allowing  all the cells of so heavy an organ that the human liver
to follow the necessary program will ever exist.
                                                  Good luck and long life !



                                                                                 
Anatole    


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