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Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 13:25:15 EDT
Subject: hospice

On the topic of preparing for death when an illness is more or less 
predictable, a reminder:

As Thomas Donaldson notes, there will certainly be future attempts to 
establish a patient's legal right to premortem cryonic suspension. However, 
there already exists a pretty good mechanism for assuring suspension under 
relatively good conditions--use of hospice.

When a patient dies under hospice care, the authorities are notified ahead of 
time, and formalities are minimal. You are working with the system, not 
against it. The hospice physician in charge is concerned only with the 
patient's and family's comfort, and will not attempt to prolong the dying. 
Cryonics Institute has frozen several patients who died under hospice care, 
and all of those experiences were good ones. 

Robert Ettinger
Cryonics Institute
Immortalist Society

http://www.cryonics.org

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