X-Message-Number: 20373
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 09:46:17 -0600
From: "Kansas City Homes - " <>
Subject: Notifying Hospital Staff about your wishes.
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----- Original Message -----
> Part of my brainstorming over this involves, as John De Rivas has
proposed,
> getting the meme out there so it is more common for those that will in
emergency
> situations be handling us to become beforehand aware of 'cryonics first
aid'
> procedures. For instance, suppose one was to consider informing not only
one's
> local emergency and fire department personnel and medical examiners but
also any
> potential same types in places one travels to frequently. This would be
> multiplying the spread of the meme. In disparate areas you'd have people
talking
> about those friendly and prescient cryonics people they met. Thisd has the
double
> benefit of simplu informing more of the public of cryonics. If there
happens to
> be overlap of two or several indviduals informingthe same agencies than
all the
> better... they'll think it's an epidmic.


In case of emergency in your town/Metro Area, you may want to have all the
fax numbers of the hospital ERs programmed into your computer (if you have a
faxing software on it). Prepare a letter clearly specifying your wishes and
instruct someone close to you to send these 10-15 faxes with one click of a
button in case there is an emergency and they have time to do so. Practice
this drill with them as if it was a fire drill :o) - program some other
number in that case (not the hospitals) :o) - The hospital will have the fax
on their fax machine within minutes and probably by the time you arrive at
the ER. They get urgent faxes all the time and read them. I think that you
will cover your bases this way.

Also, if you have a PDA Phone Combo (like Handspring Treo), you can do the
same with their faxing software. This is more in case you are stranded
somewhere by yourself locally and don't know if the person responsible for
faxing your letter from your desktop at home will be able to do so. You
click a couple of buttons yourself - hopefully  you are still capable of
this  :o) after you dial 911 :o) and the same thing is accomplished. If you
travel, you can do research about local hospitals before by making a couple
of phone calls or looking them up on the internet - I use
http://www.SwitchBoard.com a lot for looking up phone numbers by categories
(in this case, hospitals in a particular town). You can program them the
same way on your desktop (don't forget to add 1+local area code for the town
you'll be in) or your PDA phone.

Bear in mind that fax numbers may change, so you may want to regularly
(every 6-12 months) call into the ERs and ask them for their current one.

Sincerely,

IGGY Dybal

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