X-Message-Number: 7483
Date: 11 Jan 97 18:27:49 EST
From: yvan Bozzonetti <>
Subject: Cryonics in France: first solution.

Some messages about cryonics in France, some time ago may be summarized, on the
practical side by: Law imply ischemic long period, no conservation beyond one

week is possible; The second point is not a real problem, long term conservation
must simply take place beyond France's boundaries. The first one is more

important, so much indeed that Anatole Dolinoff conclude at the impossibility of
cryonics in France.

Now, Steven B. Harris in message #7475 starting:

>The following is a BioPreservation, Inc. (BPI)
>technical briefing on premedication of human
>cryopreservation patients to mitigate the injury 
>associated with antemortem and post mortem 
>hypoxia/ischemnia.
>
...


brings a first step in the solution. Something can be done for reducing ischemic
problems before death in the name of medicine, not cryonics. So, the use of

these products could be legal, they would buy time so that a cryonics team could
be alerted and the patient put out of hospital for its final hours. Death at
home is far less controled than what stipulate the law, no EEG and the like, no
multiple medical controls...

A plastic bag full of ice could be the only thing a brain needs to be conserved
until a certificate death is delivered.

	Yvan Bozzonetti.


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