X-Message-Number: 3661
Newsgroups: sci.cryonics
From:  (Michael Clive Price)
Subject: Re: Cloning and Neurosuspension
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Date: Mon, 9 Jan 1995 07:48:45 +0000
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"Martin R. Olah" writes:
> Unless I'm missing something, this doesn't sound like good news 
> for those cryonicists signed up for neurosuspension. Is it 
> believed that the brain will offer enough clues as to hormonal 
> balance, spinal cord conditions, etc?

The DNA should provide a lot of information to the hormonal state 
of the missing body.  Identical twins don't differ that much, 
biochemically.

> Or is this all considered too minor of a concern? Minor enough 
> to forgo a more conservative

more conservative?
-    more expensive
-    less perfused.  For neuropatients the perfusion concentrates 
     on the head, without being slowed down by having to perfuse 
     the rest of the body.
-    less portable.  Whole bodies need cranes to move.  Neurocans
     can be handled by one person.  During an emergency like fire,
     earthquake, riots.... portability could be very important.
Whole body is a whole load of risks - and it costs more.

> whole body suspension?

For me, yes.

Michael Price                        

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