X-Message-Number: 7870 From: (Randy) Subject: Re: Brain Fixation Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 23:55:32 GMT >In Message #7859 Brian Wowk wrote: > "Fixation and vitrification is an interesting idea (I believe >first proposed by Mike Darwin many years ago, and featured in >Drexler's book, "Engines of Creation"). Personally I'd rather >be just vitrified, and accept the risk of storage failure.=20 >Viable (or nearly viable) cells are going to be a lot easier to >repair than cells where everything has been cross-linked at the >molecular level (what a mess for future repair engineers!)." >> I can think of one good reason to consider fixation and >>vitrification/mummification - affordibility. There have been a number = of >>cases where cryonicists were cremated or buried instead of being >>cryopreserved, when funds were in short supply. I imagine first fixing = the >>brain, then vitrifying/mummifying it and cremating the rest of the body >>would cost no more than whole body burial in a cemetary. I am amazed to >>see poor cryonicists accepting complete destruction so easily when = there >>does exist an affordible alternative. =20 This certainly is an interesting idea. Speaking of fixation, aren't many brains already fixated in formaldehyde? Is a brain in a jar of formaldehyde a potentially viable brain if had been de-cerebrated (?) immediately after death? Realizing of course that revival would require the most advanced and distant version of NT. Randy =20 Home Page: http://members.wbs.net/homepages/c/r/y/cryofan1.html = =20 *********************************** Cryonics: Your Gateway to the Future? Check out CryoCare at http://www.cryocare.org/cryocare/ Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=7870