From: Don Klemencic (klemencc@sgi.net)
Date: Thu Mar 16 2000 - 22:39:30 MST
Does anybody remember an episode of LA Law where a young woman is dying of a
brain disease that will destroy her personality before she will die and can
be frozen. She hires the team to challenge the law preventing her from
"committing suicide" with assistance so she can be frozen with her
personality intact. It was presented very favorably to cryonics, and she won
her case!
I wonder if the law in Oregon allowing doctor-assisted suicide could be used
by someone in this woman's situation?
However, the *main* point to my "freeze young" proposal was in the context
where "young" means mentally "adept"or "flexible". It is an open question
regarding the degree to which the brain "solidifies" as one accumulates
experiences,but it is clear that diseases like Alzheimer's, if allowed to
progress, give you a *clearly* different brain than the one you might like
to be able to recover.
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Fri Nov 01 2002 - 15:27:27 MST