X-Message-Number: 7289
Date: 10 Dec 96 20:53:06 EST
From: Paul Wakfer <>
Subject: Proven Suspended Animation

     Several people have stated that scientifically perfected and proven
suspended animation will still not save those who currently suffer cardiac
arrest without a team nearby and consequently suffer much ischemia before being
found and cooled. Therefore, we will still need cryonics as it is currently
practiced and with many restoration, perhaps requiring nanotechnology.
     I agree with this last statement. Yes, there will always be situations
where people undergo cardiac arrest in circumstances which do not permit a
reversible suspended animation procedure. However, we should also realize that
once perfected suspended animation has become an elective medical procedure,
many of those people who currently suffer cardiac arrest in such "bad"
circumstances will, knowing of their terminal condition ahead of time, be able
to avoid such circumstances by electing to start the suspended animation
procedure before involuntary cardiac arrest occurs. I estimate that this
capability would easily cut the number of "bad" suspensions more than in half.


-- Paul --

Paul Wakfer
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