X-Message-Number: 18887
From: "John de Rivaz" <>
Subject: control over one's body
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 09:44:54 +0100

I posted the suggestion that

> > "Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a right to
determine
> > what shall be done with his own body; and a surgeon who performs an
> > operation without his patient's consent commits an assault for which he
is
> > liable in damages."

to
alt.politics.British,sci.cryonics,sci.med.pathology,uk.legal,uk.philosophy.a
theism,uk.politics.misc and got the following comments:

"Jeffrey Goldberg" <{$news}$@goldmark.org> wrote in message
news:

It seems clear that the ruling is about control over one's *living* body.
That is, while alive, certain things can't be done to me without my
consent. You are really stretching this to try to pretend that this ruling
has anything to do with corpses.  It doesn't.

 -j

 --
 Jeffrey Goldberg                     http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/
  Relativism is the triumph of authority over truth, convention over justice
  I rarely read top-posted, over-quoting or HTML postings.

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You can also judge the type of person who is in favour of compulsory post
mortem dissection from the following comments:

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"R. Mark Clayton" <> wrote in message
news:a88amb$lj8$

 Obviously the aggrieved person would have a right to damages.

 They should immediately instruct counsel (solicitor in UK), apply to the
 court and have the damages paid to them in cash for personal collection.
 R. Mark Clayton

 

  PS Oh silly me they are dead, so they can't do any of these things!  RMC

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In a related thread there was this exchange with a supporter of people in
authority having power over other people's bodies:

"Simon Gardner" <> wrote in message
news:
 In article <PcJp8.225$>,
 "Orion(Co30)" <> wrote:

 >
> Once more, with feeling. The point of cryonics is to preserve the dead
body
 > until it is possible to repair it and turn it back into the original
person.
>
 Once more, this is snake oil. It is hocus pocus. It is bollocks.

 Nobody can stop you believing any old twaddle you want to - and you clearly
have "sucker" stamped in 5 cm high letters on your forehead - but it
shouldn't inform in any way public policy, public health policy or the law.
It also doesn't resurrect corpses.

 Now piss off.

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With people like that in positions of authority (or supporting them) what
hope does the inhabitants of this abattoir planet have?

--
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