[extropy-chat] cryonicist's nightmare

[Eugen Leitl]

On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 04:35:31PM +0100, John wrote:

> It'd be interesting to see what happens to the life status of freeze dried 
> people when someone is finally brought back.

This is the first time I'm hearing about lyophilizicles. Are you sure you've
not just invented them?
 
> At present, you're officially dead when a qualified medical individual 
> believes there's no possible way to save your body - there is no finite 
> 'they're dead' factor as far as I'm aware (a single thing to look for), just 
> a collection of evidence that suggests it's impossible to help you.

The exact procedure varies from country to country.
 
> MEG scanners are the most sensitive tools for measuring neural activity, and 

Why are you mentioning MEG scanners?

> they still require tens of thousands of quasi-simultaneously depolarisations 
> to detect an event in the brain. So, even with one of these to check you 
> dead people out, you're not 100%.

I'm not getting your meaning here.
 
> Once a person is actually reanimated, there will be a way to help those 
> people in cryo tanks, which would therefore make them alive and any failure 
> of the tanks manslaughter by neglagence - with purposeful deactivation being 
> murder.

Once the legal status changes... but don't hold your breath.
 
> Although, I suspect the law will make an attempt to side step the whole 
> issue somewhat by coming up with something in between, like "suspension", 
> which grants the individual less rights than they'd otherwise have to make 
> dealing with them easier.

By law, they're dead. Currently. That's all what's relevant to know. Currently.

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