X-Message-Number: 5847 From: bob whitaker <> Newsgroups: uk.legal,sci.cryonics,sci.life-extension Subject: Re: Virtue of suffering Date: 25 Feb 1996 00:59:12 GMT Message-ID: <4goc90$> References: <> <> Owen made a cogent argument this time, not something that sounded like a fanatical environmentalist or other cliche-monger. In the United States, at least, there is a growing sentiment that lawyers' opinions always tend to involve more regulation and more control by the legal profession. I get this feeling reading Owen's piece, though I don't think it would strike lawyers that way. According to some state laws here, death occurs when the heart, rather than the brain, completely ceases to function. Admittedly I am reaching here, but would not a person in an atempted heart transplant operation before one was successful be seen as a corpse in the middle of that operation? Surely there are better examples, but cryogenics is not unique in being unproven in medial history. Did Owen Lewis' assumptions apply so totally in such cases? Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=5847