X-Message-Number: 7373
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 22:13:13 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug Skrecky <>
Subject: chemical preservation in France

In Message #7364 DOLINOFF <> wrote:

> it is forbidden to apply to a
> corpse a technique of which the aim is an indefinite storage.The only what is
> allowed is an embalming for one month or so.  And in the general case, when a
> man dies, he MUST be or buried or cremated in a delay of 7 days.
>
  Sounds like France is an even tougher proposition for preservation 
techniques than even the province of British Columbia in Canada.
Medical schools in France must have preserved corpses on hand. Elsewhere 
these can last for years depending on what is done with them. It seems to 
me that this may indicate a loop hole allowing long term chemical 
preservation to be undertaken:
  Perhaps one could will one's pickled brain to the medical class of 
2999 AD. Temporary storage to be in the Canadian permafrost?  


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