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$>

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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!
-- 
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