X-Message-Number: 5847
From: bob whitaker <>
Newsgroups: uk.legal,sci.cryonics,sci.life-extension
Subject: Re: Virtue of suffering
Date: 25 Feb 1996 00:59:12 GMT
Message-ID: <4goc90$>
References: <> <>

Owen made a cogent argument this time, not something  that 
sounded like a fanatical environmentalist or other 
cliche-monger. In the United States, at least, there is a 
growing sentiment that lawyers' opinions always tend to involve 
more regulation and more control by the legal profession.  I 
get this feeling reading Owen's piece, though I don't think it 
would strike lawyers that way.
   According to some state laws here, death occurs when the 
heart, rather than the brain, completely ceases to function.   
Admittedly I am reaching here, but would not a person in an 
atempted heart transplant operation before one was successful 
be seen as a corpse in the middle of that operation?  Surely 
there are better examples, but cryogenics is not unique in 
being unproven in medial history.  Did Owen Lewis' assumptions 
apply so totally in such cases?


Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=5847