X-Message-Number: 1498
Subject: CRYONICS Re: Sedatives
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 12:52:30 EST
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Ken Stone <> says:
>Has anyone investigated the use of major sedatives to slow neural function 
>immediately before clinical death?  

For legal reasons, the suspension team can't administer the sedatives
before legal death.  They do administer them after legal death,
though.  Maybe the attending physician could administer them at a
lower dose before legal death?  I have heard of people asking to be
sedated before death so they wouldn't have to deal with the pain, so
there is a precedent.  Has this been tried?  Cryonics magazine has
discussed other useful pre-death medications such as heavy vitamin E
supplementation; maybe sedatives should be on this list.  (Don't try
this at home, folks!)

Tim Freeman

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