X-Message-Number: 5338 Newsgroups: sci.cryonics From: (Will Ware) Subject: Re: High Pressure Cryonics Message-ID: <> References: <49mesn$> <> 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.) ------------------------------------------------------------- Will Ware <> web <http://world.std.com/~wware/> PGP fingerprint 45A8 722C D149 10CC F0CF 48FB 93BF 7289 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=5338