X-Message-Number: 11555 From: Thomas Donaldson <> Subject: reply to Thomas Nord: suicide and self-starvation Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 23:51:10 +1000 (EST) To Thomas Nord: You are generally right (suicide brings autopsy which destroys the brain and hence destroys the patient). However it has turned out that if a patient starves him/herself to death there is no autopsy. Yes, this causes some extra damage --- besides which, it's rather inhumane. But that is what some cryonics patients have done in cases in which otherwise their brains would have been destroyed if they had waited for "death" in the sense which the legal system and most doctors define it. Best and long long life, Thomas Donaldson Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=11555