X-Message-Number: 6393 From: (Brad Templeton) Newsgroups: sci.cryonics Subject: Re: Importance of Brain Cryopreservation Date: 24 Jun 1996 19:46:24 -0700 Message-ID: <4qnju0$> References: <> <4q9kjb$> <4qkjie$> In article <4qkjie$>, David L Evens <> wrote: >patents on the various patented pieces of the technology are able to get >the beuracracy sorted out and get working on this together, organ banking >will be at the kind of level Niven wrote about withing a few years. The I don't know about that. What is the volume of death with healthy organs ready to preserve (and the deceased willing to donate?) Is it such that with ideal preservation we will have organs galore for all, or that it won't much increase the supply. After all, the demand won't change a great deal. An organ transplant is not at all something you would want to do unless you really need it. We are a long way away from making the transplants that safe. I suppose it's true that wealthy elderly might start getting transplants if there are more organs. I don't think Niven's hypothetical world of an overzealous death penalty to do organ harvesting is likely. Far more likely is the so-called organlegging, people being killed for their organs, and I guess they might allow the death penalty for that! -- Brad Templeton, publisher, ClariNet Communications Corp. The net's #1 E-Newspaper (1,400,000 paid sbscrbrs.) http://www.clari.net/brad/ Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=6393