Despite medical and police personnel aware of his Alcor bracelet, he was taken to the medical examiner’s office in Santa Barbara, as they did not understand Alcor’s process and assumed that the circumstances surrounding his death would pre-empt any possible donation directives. Since this all transpired late on a Friday evening, Alcor was not notified of the incident until the following Monday morning.
How the hell are they treating this as a successful preservation? The body spent two days “warm and dead”.
Looking at their past case reports, this seems to be fairly normal. Unless you’re dying of a known terminal condition and go die in their hospice in Arizona, odds are the only thing getting froze is a mindless, decaying corpse.
Cryonicist Ben Best has put a lot of effort into studying and testing personal alarm gadgets you can wear which signal cardiac arrest to try to reduce the incidence of these unattended deanimations and long delays before cryopreservation. I plan to look into those myself.
Ironically, I’ve noticed that cryonicists talk a lot about how much they believe in scientific, medical and technological progress, but then they don’t seem to want to act on it when you present them with evidence of the correctable deficiencies of real, existing cryonics.
How the hell are they treating this as a successful preservation? The body spent two days “warm and dead”.
Looking at their past case reports, this seems to be fairly normal. Unless you’re dying of a known terminal condition and go die in their hospice in Arizona, odds are the only thing getting froze is a mindless, decaying corpse.
Cryonicist Ben Best has put a lot of effort into studying and testing personal alarm gadgets you can wear which signal cardiac arrest to try to reduce the incidence of these unattended deanimations and long delays before cryopreservation. I plan to look into those myself.
Ironically, I’ve noticed that cryonicists talk a lot about how much they believe in scientific, medical and technological progress, but then they don’t seem to want to act on it when you present them with evidence of the correctable deficiencies of real, existing cryonics.
Reference:
Personal Alarm Systems for Cryonicists
http://www.benbest.com/cryonics/alarms.html