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Newsgroups: sci.cryonics
From:  (Will Ware)
Subject: Re: High Pressure Cryonics
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Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 01:50:34 GMT

Brian Wowk () wrote:
: Vitrification involves introducing cryoprotectants
: and glass forming agents at a sufficiently high concentration that
: ice formation is completely eliminated upon cooling.  We are
: optimistic in cryonics that this technology will allow us to
: perform reversible cryopreservation of the human brain within the next
: decade.

This sounds intriguing. Can you say a bit more about what that would
look like? I've read about, and been quite impressed by, the successful
efforts with dogs and baboons to go close to 0 celsius for a few hours.

Ignoring issues of legality, I can imagine a situation where somebody was
terminally ill (eg. late stages of AIDS) who would be willing to be
chilled to well below freezing, thawed a few weeks or months later for
memory testing and comparative psychological profiling, and then rechilled
so that they could get their health fixed some time when their condition
becomes repairable.

On a nearly unrelated note (but pertaining to legality), what's the legal
status of somebody who is cryopreserved in international waters? It's my
understanding that the definition of clinical death in the U.S. precludes
optimal preparation for cryopreservation. Are the laws more lenient at
sea? (One imagines "cryo-cruises"; island-hop the Caribbean, then go into
cryostasis on the way home.)
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