X-Message-Number: 7401
From:  (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: sci.cryonics
Subject: Re: Full Body vs. Head Only suspension
Date: 31 Dec 1996 16:57:23 -0800
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Nobody really knows how valuable the body will be.

It is speculated by some that since it takes longer to flush out
all the blood in the body and fill it with perfusate than to do just
the brain, that suspending the body might have impact on how well
the brain is suspended.  It's unknown.   If you're wealthy enough
you have to judge if the risks slightly inferior brain suspension are
better than those of not having the body along.

It's mostly financial though.  They can store a lot of heads in the space
of one body, they pack better.

While I think the public has a poor understanding of neurosuspension the
arguments are sound.  We know from quadraplegics that personality is
pretty fully maintained if the brain is disconnected from the body
nervous wise, though hormonal disconnection can't be tested of course.

Generally it is believed that cloning a new body should be easier than thawing
and repairing the old one, but of course nobody is sure about that, it
just makes sense.  And nobody wants their old body anyway, though they
might be happy with it fully repaired and rejuvenated.  Or perhaps they
want the body of Arnold Schwartzenegger.

The big if, I suppose, is reconnection, but with all the recent breakthroughs
in the repair of severed spines, it looks like this should be a problem
that can be solved.
-- 
Brad Templeton, publisher, ClariNet Communications Corp.	 
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