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. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=7483