X-Message-Number: 6252
From:  (Brian Wowk)
Newsgroups: sci.cryonics
Subject: Re: Permafrost burials, any news?
Date: 21 May 96 05:36:30 GMT
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References: <4njfu1$>

	The problem is that the best Arctic sites are controlled
by the local Innuit populations, and are closed to outsiders.
The closure policy was apparently the result of persistent
cryonics inquiries. 

	I've never been sanguine about permafrost interment as
a "cryonics" technology with any prospect of success at all.
I think the state of bodies interred during the doomed Franklin
expedition (recently found and analyzed), speaks louder than
any treatise I could write on autolysis at high sub-zero
temperatures.  After 100 years of high Artic burial, there
was nothing left of these men but collagen fibers.  Similar
observations apply to dead sled dogs from the doomed Scott
expedition that still lay out in the open in the arid, forever-
frozen Antarctic.

	I suggest that you obtain DNA samples from your
parents (hair follicles, etc.), and inter them near home,
as they probably would prefer.  Sorry I have nothing more
encouraging to offer.
   
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 Brian Wowk          CryoCare Foundation               1-800-TOP-CARE
 President           Human Cryopreservation Services   
    http://www.cryocare.org/cryocare/
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