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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I just stumbled across this question and
the answer to it</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>in a text _Biochemistry_ 3rd
Edition by Voet and Voet</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>published 2004. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I found it interesting </FONT><FONT face=Arial
size=2>that a standard university biochemistry</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>text was aware of cryonics and addressing
students minds</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>to it </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>in this way.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Chap 22, no. 14.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"Certain unscrupulous operators offer, for a fee,
to freeze </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>recently deceased individuals in liquid nitrogen
until medical</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>science can cure the disease from which they died.
What </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>is the biological fallacy of this
procedure?"</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The answer given:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"Death is essentially an irreversible loss of
order. On dying, </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>cells loose their order on the molecular level by
loosing their</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>ion gradients, enzymatically digesting their
macromolecular</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>components, breaking down their membranes, etc.
Thus, </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>although cells and the organisms they comprise
appear to</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>change little on dying, the microscopic changes
which occur</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>are profound and cannot be reversed by simply
"curing" the</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>condition that caused death".</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Brett Paatsch</FONT></DIV>
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