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Stefano Vaj wrote:
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 17 May 2010 15:32, BillK <span dir="ltr"><<a
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Body must be dug up so that head can be frozen<br>
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The Associated Press • May 15, 2010<br>
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The siblings of a man who died more than a year ago must exhume his<br>
body so his head can be cut off and cryogenically frozen, the Iowa<br>
Court of Appeals has ruled.<br>
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This may be good news for Alcor or fulfil an exemplary purpose as to
the respect of the deceased's will.<br>
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It seems to me that a totally different legal action should of
occurred. Most likely failure to honor a will. This seeking to dig up
a grave for no good purpose whatsoever is utterly ridiculous. <br>
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But, OK, cryonics is certainly a better bet than putrefaction, but
after one year of the latter it would seem a very, very marginally
better bet.<br>
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There is nothing at all that can be done with such remains except to
get a copy of the deceased DNA. The brain/mind is irrevocably lost
short of time travel and other unlikely scenarios.<br>
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- samantha<br>
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