From a statistical standpoint, lottery winners don’t exist—you would never encounter one in your lifetime, if it weren’t for the selective reporting.
Well… one of my grandmothers’ neighbors, whose son I played with as a child, did indeed win the lottery. (AFAIK, it was a relatively modest jackpot, but he did win!)
Also, re: cryonics: My current understanding is that being an organ donor is incompatible with cryonic preservation. Is this correct? (Myself, I think I’d rather be an organ donor...)
Well, yes, some of the modest jackpots are statistically almost possible, in the sense that on a large enough web forum, someone else’s grandmother’s neighbor will have won it. Just not your own grandmother’s neighbor.
Sorry about your statistical anomalatude, CronoDAS—it had to happen to someone, just not me.
Mostly not. The process of preparing the body for cryonics (even for neuro- or head-only patients) requires pumping preservation chemicals through the bloodstream that are incompatible with donation.
Well… one of my grandmothers’ neighbors, whose son I played with as a child, did indeed win the lottery. (AFAIK, it was a relatively modest jackpot, but he did win!)
Also, re: cryonics: My current understanding is that being an organ donor is incompatible with cryonic preservation. Is this correct? (Myself, I think I’d rather be an organ donor...)
Well, yes, some of the modest jackpots are statistically almost possible, in the sense that on a large enough web forum, someone else’s grandmother’s neighbor will have won it. Just not your own grandmother’s neighbor.
Sorry about your statistical anomalatude, CronoDAS—it had to happen to someone, just not me.
And now that you have selectively reported this fact, I know of CronoDAS the web forum buddy, whose grandmother’s neighbor has won a modest jackpot!
What is this, six degrees of a lottery winner?
I would imagine it should be possible to freeze your brain and donate the rest of your organs?
Mostly not. The process of preparing the body for cryonics (even for neuro- or head-only patients) requires pumping preservation chemicals through the bloodstream that are incompatible with donation.