X-Message-Number: 8912
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 1997 19:33:23 -0600
From: Steve Jackson <>
Subject: Experimental subjects

If a great ape is a similar enough subject to be useful (which I won't get
into because I have no competence on the matter) then, if the cooperation
of a zoo could be arranged, a cryonics company could do a standby on a
dying gorilla or chimp, run through the whole procedure, and then thaw,
autopsy and evaluate.

One might also be able to acquire live apes that were (for whatever reason)
scheduled for euthanasia anyway. But there are probably all kinds of
permits involved; there are certainly dangers in handling large primates,
especially sick or injured ones; and if an animal is in a condition in
which euthanasia is required, it might very well be cruelly stressful to
move it to the cryonics lab.


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