X-Message-Number: 9969
Date: Fri, 03 Jul 1998 12:29:49 +0100
From:  (John de Rivaz)
Subject: Re: Medical nightmares

In article: <> Charles Platt 
<> writes:
(del)
> But a concept that is fun to play with can seem very different when you
> apply it to yourself in real life. Cryonics in real life is no fun at all.
> It involves nightmarish medical procedures 

Surely all surgical procedures are the stuff of nightmares - they simply 
weren't possible before the invention of anaesthesia. Many now commonplace 
operations, especially transplants, were the subject of 1930s horror movies.

At least there is no chance of waking accidentally once crypreserved. 

In surgery, the paralysing drug ("muscle relaxant") is usually given just 
before the anaesthetic, presumably for some technical reason. This has 
resulted in claims that people have been conscious during operations and 
unable to communicate the fact to the anaesthetist.

(del)

> Joe supplied the usual long list of reasons not to sign up, plus one that 
> I had never heard before. "I know what it's like to be in pain," he said, 
> referring to the machine-gun bullet wound that he sustained in Vietnam. 
> "I think being resuscitated could be very painful."

Wasn't there a post to similar effect on sci.cryonics a few weeks back?

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