From: Hara Ra (harara@shamanics.com)
Date: Wed Aug 26 1998 - 23:06:38 MDT
At 06:41 PM 8/24/98 -0700, Spike Jones wrote:
>hara, ive refined this a little in my mind. the chimp connection would only
>be for a day or two, while the mind recovers from the shock of the operation
>and prepares for the next (the freezing part). seems like a person starting
>the cooling process would be better off with a young and healthy simian
>body than with an old sick human one.
I think voluntary suicide would be more merciful and effective. There's
also the spinal cord to think about.... And recovery from shock of
operation can take a LOT longer than a day or so. There might be some
justification for mounting the head on an advanced life support system and
using clean whole blood and the like - probably a better choice than a
chimp body... Also, if death is planned, I can see little advantage to the
procedure. The whole point IMHO is to preserve the information in the
brain, and I can't see how the chimp procedure is going to do much if
anything.
>
>wasnt there an aids guy who took a baboon transplant of bone marrow?
>did he die? spike
>
I don't know what happened to him. It was a couple of years before protease
inhibitors.
BTW to everyone on the list, my name is actually one word, ie
Hara(space)Ra. Please use Hara Ra in its entirety.
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