X-Message-Number: 15730 Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 07:31:18 -0500 From: Thomas Donaldson <> Subject: CryoNet #15697 - #15705 Hi everyone! Some comments. 1. When my brain tumor might have killed me, I studied what was done in such cases. Basically a cryonics patient would starve him/herself. Yes, this caused problems, but it was done in cases in which NOT starving yourself would cause far more damage. I wish that more people on Cryonet talked about their own experiences and the policies of their organization rather than simply coming up with plans for suicide which very well might fail to work. So far as I know, this method is still used when necessary. 2. I continue to note people who are not subscribing to PERIASTRON reporting science news of the kind I cover there. Sometimes it's not the exact same article, sometimes it is. If there is anything that makes PERIASTRON difficult, I'd like to know ... after all, I'd like to increase my subscriber list. I'd be the last person to claim that such news articles are useless, but I do wonder why the reporters don't take more trouble to get them. After all, SCIENCE and the various NATURE periodicals are far from the only sources of science relating to cryonics. For neuroscience, there are too many periodicals for me to list here. For cryobiology, the field is much more restricted... but so far there haven't been much news of that kind presented by those who summarize (say) relevant articles from SCIENCE. (And for those who wonder Why neuroscience? I will simply answer that it gives us what is now known about how our brains work and how they store memory, and it is those things that we want to preserve). Best wishes and long long life for all, Thomas Donaldson Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=15730