X-Message-Number: 7538 Subject: automatic "patient down" detector Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 11:35:47 -0600 From: Will Dye <> Thomas Donaldson wrote: >The need for detectors which scream if we are dead is very important. While >I'm not now in a position to actually make one, I'd be happy to contribute >to the cost of needed equipment etc, and buy one when they exist. As many >probably know, I spend most of the year living alone --- and perhaps worse, >in a town where I am the only cryonicist. WHAT!?!?!!! I admit I am so short of time that I mostly "scan" Cryonet stuff, so I must've missed this fact somehow. Mr. Donaldson, have any arrangements been made to detect legal death within, say, one day? Until something more elaborate is jury-rigged together, you could at least send e-mail every day to a group of friends who are on the net regularly (I volunteer to be among them). If we don't get an "I'm still alive" message that day, we'll try calling you. I know that 24 hours is a long time, and the mechanism is laughably crude, but it sure beats having you rot on the floor until the stench alerts the neighbors. Surely we can arrange for something... Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=7538