X-Message-Number: 6334 Date: Sun, 9 Jun 1996 14:00:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Robin Helweg-Larsen <> Subject: Legal definitions Re: Thomas Donaldson's comment that > The mere fact > that a legal ritual of Declaration of Death has been performed for a > person does not and CANNOT imply that they are really dead. It is at best > a statement of what lawyers of the day, with their scientific understanding > even more limited than that of doctors of the day (who, given the vastness > and complexity of the Universe, can hardly be seen as all-knowing ...) > a statement of what a body of ignorant people have DECIDED to be Death. Let's not forget that the General Assembly of Indiana passed a Bill in 1897 ruling that the value of pi was 4. These things get worked out eventually. Always optimistically, Robin HL Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=6334