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... 


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