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Potvin (no login)
Posted Jul 14, 2001 7:53 AM
This thread will attempt to delineate how to go about reconstituting the deanimated and buried Australian that is the subject of Trygve Bauge's interest... and will actually make some attempt to do it.
First off, we'll need his name! Who are we talking about?
Secondly, where are his family photo albums?
Third, in what cemetary is he buried?
This thread will likely grow very fast and be formidable-- but I think we can do it all right here. Network54 is pretty darn good about free space. It would make sense, though, to download hardcopy or softcopy as we go along.
Pictures and audio can be uploaded to this forum as well. This forum therefore, will become the deanimated Australians' reconstitution.
The degree of decay of structure in the deanimated subject is probably so extreme that there may not be ANY "individually unique" microstructure left. Morticians' trade magazines, or other sources of data on how bodies disintegrate, while in a coffin, need to be compiled here. The time it takes to do that is worth it, given the nature of the request and the unresolved definitions of cryonics.
An official organization that speaks, in general, for "cryonicists"-- needs to be created-- much like the professional organization of "cryobiologists" that speaks for them. The Society of Cryonicists should be formed from top ranking members of existing cryonics organizations. This society should define what is meant by "cryonics" and what is NOT meant by "cryonics", both from a technical and a legal point of view. At the very least, the Society of Cryonicsts will deem as what is "acceptable" to the Society of Cryonicists as "cryonics".
I think that there will have to be an element of "premeditation" involved in "cryonics". Even "last minute" cases are "premeditated"-- but "after the fact" cases are NOT premeditated and therefore will NOT be called "cryonics". I haven't thought this through, entirely, so there's still some weakness in the argument here.
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