X-Message-Number: 615 Subject: sci.med talks about cryonic suspensions Date: Fri, 24 Jan 92 15:34:39 EST From: Henson posted the "Account of a Cryonic Suspension" that appeared here to sci.med, and here is one response that arose. Does anyone care to comment? I don't feel competent to judge here. Tim From: tpm% (Terence P. Ma) Newsgroups: sci.med Subject: Re: Account of a Cryonic Suspension Date: 23 Jan 92 23:31:54 GMT Organization: Dept. of Anatomy, Univ. Mississippi Medical Center In article <> (gordon e. banks) writes: >After reading this, it strikes me that the odds of having this brain ever >revive intact is extremely remote. Maybe if you dropped the person, >still functioning well, into liquid nitrogen... I think your characterization "remote" has got to be the understatement of the year. I can tell you that as a neuroanatomist who does a lot of histology of the brain, if I used the protocol they described and then examined the tissue, there would be a tremendous amount of freezing artifact in the tissue --- so much so that it would be useless for scientific research. >What a waste of resources, though! Agreed!!! -- Terence P. Ma, Ph.D. VOICE: 601-984-1654 Department of Anatomy FAX: 601-984-1655 University of Mississippi Med. Ctr. EMAIL: tpm% Jackson, MS 39216 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=615