[ExI] freeze and shake

[John Grigg]

My initial knee jerk reaction to this technique was that this is a
perverse "Bizarro world" take on cryonics! lol  But I can see now how
this might actually be a very good thing for Alcor and CI, in that
since the person is getting frozen anyway...

The general public would get used to the idea of the dead being
frozen, but I could see cryonicists getting into an adversarial
position with the green/environmental/sustainability movement because
we would be viewed by them as wasting valuable resources (in a world
with a great deal of poverty) to preserve frozen bodies for the
longterm.

John


On 5/21/10, Gina Miller <nanogirl at halcyon.com> wrote:
> I wasn't making a direct reaction to the article, I was just making a joke
> in reference to their comment "A "Resomator", for instance, uses alkaline
> hydrolysis to reduce a corpse into a white powder and murky liquid intended
> to be flushed down the drain without polluting the environment." You know,
> like a life down flushed down the drain....(or other) I guess these things
> don't always translate via email.
> Gina
> www.nanogirl.com
>
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> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 9:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [ExI] freeze and shake
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>>
>>
>>> ...On Behalf Of Gina Miller
>>> Subject: Re: [ExI] freeze and shake
>>>
>>> A life flushed down the drain. ...(Oh My Genetics)... Gina
>>
>> Doesn't hafta, Gina.  Consider if Alcor were to expand its services to
>> include super-green disposal of one's remains.  As far as the family needs
>> to know, Alcor is the beneficiary of an eyeball donation (along with a
>> cash
>> donation of say $100k) for a study to see what happens to corneas frozen
>> for
>> an indefinite time, necessitating that the corneas remain in their
>> original
>> packaging for the purposes of the experiment, with all neural attachments
>> intact.  Then one donates one's eyes to Alcor, the company freezes and
>> shatters the rest (everything from the neck down) to gravel and gives the
>> crushed ice to the family of the deceased.  If they have for whatever
>> reason
>> heartburn with the notion of cryonics, I don't see why they would object
>> to
>> an organ donation experiment.  So they stay out of the way.  Everyone
>> wins,
>> ja?
>>
>> spike
>>
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