X-Message-Number: 7123
Date:  Fri, 08 Nov 96 11:12:03 
From: Steve Bridge <>
Subject: Re: cryonics on ER

To CryoNet
>From Steve Bridge
November 8, 1996

In reply to:     Message #7121
                 Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1996 23:25:42 -0500
                 From: Brent Fox <>
                 Subject: ER 


     I also saw the ER episode with cryonics in it.  I am a bit more 
positive about a couple of aspects of the episode: 

1)  the dying old man had a wife already in suspension whom he wanted to 
join.  That emphasizes the family aspects of cryonics; you don't have to 
make some journey alone.

2)  When the nurse informed the head doctor that she had been asked by a 
friend of the deanimated patient to pack this person in ice and call the 
cryonics company, she then asked if she should really do that.  The doctor 
answered (more or less) "Sure, of course."


     While the treatment was dumb in a lot of ways (they proudly packed the 
patient in ice -- *except for his head!*), in another way it was good.  It 
was *matter-of-fact.*  Yes, this is just another unusual thing you might 
see in the Emergency Room; but it is within the realm of normality.  You 
don't have to call the hospital attorneys and turn it into an incident.  
You just deal with it, do what the patient wanted, and go on to the next 
patient.

     The blandness of it all is almost a positive.
     
Steve Bridge



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