X-Message-Number: 16991
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 09:04:21 -0400
From: Thomas Donaldson <>
Subject: CryoNet #16980 - #16989

A short comment for Mike Perry:

No, brains do not liquefy shortly after death. Or even some time after
death. It may well be that most brain cells lose their connections and
other bad things happen, but the destruction isn't normally anything
that we would call "liquefying".

I do not mean that we could not produce such a consequence, only that
it is not the normal effect.

One major reason I say this is simply that doctors have been preserving
brains gotten from bodies hours after death for some time. There is
still information there... and this preservation is independent of
cryonics and took place well before cryonics had been heard of by
anyone. And yes, the actual destruction depends a lot on how the
brains were treated both before and after they were obtained as 
specimens. It may or may not have destroyed the person IN the brain,
but that is a separate issue... and much more subtle than "liquefaction"
in any case.

			Best wishes and long long life for all,

				Thomas Donaldson

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