X-Message-Number: 971
From:	Ralph Merkle <>
Subject: Introduction to Cryonics
Date:	Thu, 9 Jul 1992 14:15:51 PDT

Everything you've always wanted to know about cryonics, but
were afraid to ask!  Come one, come all!  Invite a friend!


  Subject:  Introduction to Cryonics
  Date:     Sunday July 12, 1992
  Time:     7:00 pm
  Place:    The house of Ralph C. Merkle
            1134 Pimento Ave
            Sunnyvale, CA 94087
            408-730-5224

Directions:  take 280 or 101 to 85.  From 85 take the Fremont
exit towards Sunnyvale.  Turn left at Fremont and Mary
(a major intersection with shopping centers), and then turn
right about a block later on Ticonderoga (there's a turn signal at
this intersection).  Go about a block and turn left onto Pimento.
1134 Pimento is the second house from the far end of the block,
on the right.

The business meeting is from 4:00 to 6:00, the pot luck is from 6:00
to 7:00, and the introduction to cryonics is from 7:00 to 8:00.
Questions and answers and socializing continue after that.  Information
on all aspects of cryonics is available including technical; legal;
what forms to fill out; what are the costs; what sorts of life
insurance are available; what are cryoprotectants; what does freezing
do to tissue; etc. etc.

You're welcome to attend the business meeting, the potluck, and the
introduction; or whatever subset strikes your fancy.

We recently got two slides that show, for the first time, nerve tissue
that was frozen and then freeze-substituted.  Previous work shows
nerve tissue that was frozen and then thawed.  Thawing produces a number of
changes in the tissue: the actual appearance of the frozen tissue
is partially or largely obscured by the process of thawing.  Freeze
substitution provides more accurate information about the appearance of
the tissue in the frozen state.  Presumably, future methods of analysis
and repair will not subject the tissue to the damaging process of
uncontrolled thawing, so the frozen state of the tissue is more
informative and more significant.

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