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Paul Antonik Wakfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Reply to a post on sci.life-extension, also copied to sci.cryonics and > the Cryonet list. > > Robert McCarty wrote: > > > Cryo is a "permanent" cellular degradation by ice crystals.. > > You are completely misinformed. Even under the worst current procedures > all ice crystals form extra-cellularly. Cells are shrunken but not > ruptured. Under the best current procedures no ice crystals are formed > at all. The only damage is due to cyroprotectant toxicity. It is > currently not clear whether such damage is ultimately "fatal". Only time > and future medical advances will tell us that. In the meantime, work > continues to develop fully non-toxic cryoprotectants which still allow > no ice crystal formation. With funding of only $10 million per year it > is almost certain, IMO, that this could be accomplished within 5-10 > years and that within 15-20 years fully reversible long-term human > suspended animation would be available for all who live in > technologically advanced countries and wish to have it. This would > accomplish an end to individual death from most non-accidental causes > since once in suspended animation one could wait as long as necessary > for the necessary medical advances to fix what put one there and also > for the life extension advances needed to rejuvenate one. In that sense > fully reversible long term human suspended animation would be like an > ambulance ride to the future. > > > --Paul Wakfer > > MoreLife for the rational - http://morelife.org > Reality based tools for more life in quantity and quality > The Self-Sovereign Individual Project - http://selfsip.org > Rational freedom by self-sovereignty & social contracting Every winter many plants and insects are frozen and revive in spring..some frogs freeze in winter also and thaw in spring every year naturally.....How else can the dead be resurrected ? May God Bless the resurrection of the dead (*-*)
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