X-Message-Number: 25002 From: Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 01:41:36 EST Subject: Improving Rescue Chances In a message dated 11/8/2004 3:01:14 AM Mountain Standard Time, writes: another difficult case because after the deanimation of A-1099 his > relatives had him embalmed and attempted to have him cremated. > Of the last 4 cases mentioned on Cryonet (2 CI and 2 Alcor) are were difficult cases, featuring several days of ischemia. I don't know what the long term batting average is for these two organizations, but I do agree with David it could use a little improvement. Any ideas out there? ___ Of course. As you go downhill, arrange to be moved to a hospice near CI or Alcor, and have the hospice stay in close touch with them. Check the law and your prognosis, and consider deanimating at a chosen time if that seems useful and possible. Even in states that do not allow more active methods, one may stop artificial methods of life support at a given time. So you could say, "Keep me on oxygen and a ventillator until the cryo people arrive and all is ready. Then pull the tubes." A cooperative doctor can probably keep you going until you are so far down that pulling the tubes will result in prompt death . If you must stay far away, then write a contract that pays a conducively large sum to your hospice or other caregiver if and only if you are promptly treated upon clinical death. Have a lawyer write it up so it is binding and gives the caregiver authority to carry out the duties. A medical power of attorney plus authority over your remains would probably be needed. Make the money enough to really motivate them to perform their duties *successfully*. Relying on relatives with motives to get a larger inheritance by cremating you and saving the cryo costs for the estate is not safe. Giving a lawyer or hospice the authority and motivation (big monetary reward) to see you properly treated is much more likely to work. Against the risk of dying unexpectedly and suddenly while living alone, one could only arrange for frequent checks on his health, for example by frequent checkup calls. It will be better when a pulse monitor can be connected to one of those call-for-help pendants that telephone several people if you push the panic button. So it will call if your pulse stops or at some other sign of distress. But realistically in such a case you'll be dead for an hour or so before rescue arrives. A hospice and fast rescue is much more promising. Alan Mole Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=25002