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| # 0019.2 | The Technical Feasibility of Cryonics; Part #2 [Ralph Merkle] |
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the evacuation of the Fort Randall Cemetery,
states that nearly two percent of those exhumed . . . begin to use terms like "persistent
vegetative state." While we will often refrain from declaring . . . usually arise because we
view their present state as "alive" but because there is still hope of
recovery to a healthy state with memory and personality intact. From a
. . . present within the physical structure of the
brain, even though their behavior does not provide . . . and every atom in a person's
brain then we would (at least in principle) . . . person to a fully functional and
healthy state with their memories and personality intact.
Considerations . . . That is, if the
structures in the brain that encode memory and personality have been . . . repair or even the preservation of the brain[11,12]. Although the brain
is made of neurons, synapses, protoplasm, DNA . . . might not be the best topic for
after dinner conversation. While the details will vary . . . In current
practice the patient is suspended after legal death: the fear that the
treatment . . . never developed
and applied in practice, even after the passage of centuries.
The first failure . . . Today, cryonic suspensions cannot be initiated until after legal death.
Even operating under this constraint, . . . information theoretic death will often
occur well after legal death. Second, a change in legal . . . the human brain remains intact for
several hours or more following the cessation of blood (22 Nov 92 21:14:47, 49 KB) |
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| # 28359 | Feat that allows brain to survive for months in a nearly anoxic state. [Basie] |
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coetzeebasie@yahoo.com>
Subject: Feat that allows brain to survive for months in a nearly anoxic state.
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 15:09: . . . store
vast amounts of glycogen in its brain to keep the brain functioning and
healthy from February to April, . . . that the amount of glycogen in the brain was at
its peak in February, when . . . Glycogen, an energy supply that the carp brain uses to survive
anoxia, was 15 times . . . survive for months in
a nearly anoxic state.
There is currently no direct tie between . . . examining the brains
of the fish shortly after removing them from the pond.
They found . . . level
that supports brain function for 16 hours in the anoxic winter when energy
demand (Sun, 27 Aug 2006, 6 KB) |
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| # 15195 | First Alcor Neuro-Vitrification Procedure; December, 2000 [Fred Chamberlain] |
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Palm Springs, California experienced irreversible cardiac arrest, after a
brief
overnight episode of pneumonia. Alcor . . . could not be
contacted at all until after death was pronounced. The member was in . . . Such
procedures vary from county to county, state to state). Instead, removal from
Palm Springs with cooling was effected within a few hours by a mortuary
service
to the Los . . . ice
crystal damage in the patient's brain. These methods were used. It is not
(Tue, 26 Dec 2000, 6 KB) |
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| # 5096 | SCI.hyperbaria [Mike Darwin] |
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collaboration was aborted by
bureacuratic red tape after initial experiments showed the feasability of
the . . . fixed at -30 C in the liquid state
and after loading and unloading with VS4: there is . . . fastest
you could reasonably cool a humam brain would be about (5-10 C an hour).
The rapid loss of viability of sperm (02 Nov 95 12:55:, 7 KB) |
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| # 11685 | Cryonics: Yesterday's Technology Tomorrow [Mike Darwin] |
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re-posting below an article from Cryonet after obtaining Steve's
>permission. I believe it . . . difficult
than demonstrating recovery, acute or chronic, after isolated brain
ischemia where the multiple organ systems of . . . were uniformly and catastrophically neuroinjured (persistent
vegatative state). Dog and man share a unique and . . . both time-course and mechanisms of injury after cardiac arrest.
We learned early on that . . . the net result being a persistent vegetative
state. The test was positive, but the bacterial . . . that
nitric oxide was produced in the brain by a special enzyme, bNOS, which is
. . . SCIENCE NEWS and expressing wonderment that the brain used nitric
oxide as a neurotransmitter (I' . . . the culprit
in some injury, and go after it in isolation. Early on, in ischemia . . . are
criticalto cell survival.
The modern organism, after a long evolution of living in oxygen ( . . . approach." The
dog was walking around 24 hours after 14 minutes and 45 seconds of
(Thu, 6 May 1999, 23 KB) |
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| # 5462 | One Alcor Suspension; One Tragic Loss [Steve Bridge] |
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06 a.m. MST
(Phoenix time, 2 hours earlier than New York) on Sunday, November . . . Kit and headed for the airport.
Shortly after Hugh and Tanya were in the air, . . . in a row where less than three hours notice of deanimation
was available.]
The only . . . Phoenix), then rent a car for an hour
drive. Tanya and Hugh arrived at the . . . our next "appropriate" suspension for a one-hour
documentary on cryonics he is producing for . . . addition, most airline cargo areas need two hours advance
notice to load "human remains," and . . . up manual
hoist as a safety measure. (After all, it could have been a total
. . . lying on his couch, in "an advanced state of
decomposition." The Medical Examiner later estimated . . . body was severely decomposed,
and that the brain was almost completely so. What remained of (Thu, 21 Dec 95, 12 KB) |
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| # 15559 | Mr Smith goes to CI - #15533, 15534 [Paul Antonik Wakfer] |
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their future is in
your interest even after death. These are value judgements which I . . . I think that such an opinion as stated in the
second sentence is just wishful . . . to
go to the future, whatever the state of their remains, so long as we . . . us say dead for more than 6 hours to rule out the children who
> drown in ice water and recover after about an hour).
Actually, for adults at normothermia the time . . . of lack of blood flow to the brain, by current
extablishment medicine.
> So we cool (Mon, 05 Feb 2001, 17 KB) |
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| # 12472 | Further Comments on Patent [Mike Darwin] |
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key* credit in my narrative when I stated:
" I also want to make very clear . . . pivotal contributions and spent countless back-breaking hours in the
laboratory."
Added to this should . . . opinion,
shown incredible *specific* promise for improved brain cryopreservation
(and was used in the two brain vitrification studies presented at the 21CM
Seminar, and to achieve the high quality post-thaw brain EMs posted on the
ACS website) was . . . cryopreservation ultrastructural
evaluation in the intact mammalian brain.
I also want to mention the enormous number of hours Chris Rasch has spent
doing many hundreds, . . . cells, appears to closely approximate that of brain
neurons and gials cells.) I would conservatively . . . single-handledly put in over 10,000 hours each year, for the past 2 years
. . . our COO here at CCRI till 0400
after starting her day at 0900 the day (Wed, 29 Sep 1999, 16 KB) |
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| # 5812 | Convincing The Unreceptive [Saul Kent] |
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is) based upon
scientific evidence. Although the state of that evidence was slim (at the . . . still potentially alive
because his or her brain was as yet undamaged and that prevention of
"irreversible" damage to his or her brain would preserve that person's chance of
eventual revival. The fact that sections of brain tissue could be well preserved
by freezing and that persons had been revived after up to an hour or more at
hypothermic temperatures provided me (24 Feb 96 13:02:18, 7 KB) |
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| # 25772 | Induced hypothermia saves live [Olaf Henny] |
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Reilly was nearer to death than life after being pulled from the waters off Mexico.
. . . O'Reilly's temperature to a hypothermic state.
"The only reason we didn't declare him formally brain dead was he was taking one breath . . . theory being that in a cooled-down state, the body has time to heal itself.
. . . 32 degrees and kept him in that state for three days, an unusually long time for hypothermic treatment, which is normally done for just 24 hours.
"I had nothing to lose for extending (Tue, 08 Mar 2005, 5 KB) |
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