X-Message-Number: 19327 From: Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 14:30:13 EDT Subject: Re: CryoNet #19316 - #19322 As a further observation and follow-up on the question of restarting electical activity I recall a remarkable program on CBS's '60 Minutes' which showed a person being cooled down to a point where the heart stopped, allowing the surgeons to remove a brain embolism at zero blood pressure. After the procedure, the body was gradually reheated and the heart began to beat spontaneously at a certain temperature which i seem to recall was about 70 degrees F. It was an amazing program which I thought might give a big boost to cryonics. The patient showed no ill effects from the procedure whatever and it was life-saving. I also gathered that it was not an experiment but rather close to standard of care at that particular hospital whose identity I don't recall. Changing subject, congratulations to Mike Darwin for his marvelous review of Six Feet Under and thanks for the additional background. I absolutely agree with everything he says as does my non-cryonics-supporting wife who just said to me "right on target" after reading it. Alan Ball is definitely some kind of genius and 'American Beauty' is one of the best movies ever made, right up there with Citizen Kane. However, I fear we might not like what he would do with us with a Cryonics episode on SFU. Ron Havelock Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=19327