From: FutureQ (futureq@attbi.com)
Date: Mon Oct 21 2002 - 00:21:06 MDT
There's a young woman, the only american, with mad cow disease. My
question is, is there anything left of "her" to be cryonicaly suspended?
She's non communicative and given only months to live at this point. Too
bad her family didn't get involved, then move to Oregon and press for a
suspension after voluntary suicide when she still had some faculty of
self left to make such a decision.
FutureQ
"Robert J. Bradbury" wrote:
> It would appear that scientists now have a good handle on
> how prion diseases cause neuronal cell death and eventually
> produce Mad Cow Disease.
>
> It turns out the misfolded prion proteins overwhelm the
> normal protein recycling apparatus in the cell and accumulate
> to cause cell death.
>
> See:
> Researchers Find Mechanism Responsible for Neuronal Death in
> Prion Diseases
> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/10/021018080705.htm
>
> Robert
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