X-Message-Number: 24966 From: Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 05:01:45 EST Subject: European cryonics Outside UK, it seems european cryonics is not welcome, this is true in France, Spain and Germany at least. I don't know about Italy, Belgium and so on. At least for France, it seems there could be a solution using the law on giving bodies to the science. If there was a legitimate research center, it could works. Such a center could have, as a main objective, to keep bodies as biological archives. For example, if we had keept some corpses from the Spanish flu pandemics, we could have a vaccine for it now. The same may be true for some prion illness or newly discovered giant viruses. We don't know today what we will need tomorrow, so we must keep a sample of the general population, cryonics is the only way to do it. I think this science and social side of cryonics must be put forward in countries with a "cryonics problem". I hope the work on a first cryostat will start in France near the end of the month. Before all the paperwork will be untangled, the comming facility would be working with animals only. Yvan Bozzonetti. Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=24966