X-Message-Number: 5112 Date: Sun, 5 Nov 1995 16:22:38 -0500 (EST) From: Robin Helweg-Larsen <> Subject: Empty heads As we get older, we lose brain mass. Mike Darwin recently posted about someone with a golfball-sized brain tumor (I think) who was functioning normally and not even aware of a problem. Presumably that would have caused (can I say?) headaches for a younger person. Anyway, there's an increasing amount of available space as we age. What about the idea of preparing for cryonic suspension, years in advance of clinical death, by placing a refrigeration unit inside the skull? It need not be a golfball, it could have a more efficient shape, even extend out throughout the brain perhaps. Then, on clinical death, plug it in and start freezing the brain down from the inside. It could even be programmed to kick in in the event of a stroke or heart attack. (I realize not all of this is 1995 technology...) Always optimistically, Robin HL Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=5112