X-Message-Number: 20695 Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 14:54:40 -0500 From: Stephen Ritger <> Subject: Re: CryoNet #20690 References: <> >Message #20690 >From: "Toby Christensen" <> >Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 16:15:59 +0800 >Subject: My stepdad's argument, succinctly > >Is this: > >That after 7 minutes without oxygen a person is brain-dead and that >the idea that someone will develop the technology to revive brain >dead people one day is mysticism. > > My response to your stepdad is this: Isn't that sort of like saying, "after a person stops breathing and his heart stops beating, that person is dead, and the idea that someone will develop the technology to revive dead people one day is mysticism." Catch my drift??? Death is not an event, it is a process. Medical science is continually pushing back the line between what is "alive" and what is "dead." Perhaps Dr. Ettinger could expound on this point, as he knows far more about the relevant science than I do. Cheers, Steve Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=20695