On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 4:30 PM, roberto regazzoni
<regazzoni_roberto@...> wrote:

> Il caso rientra in quelli che Alcor chiama "poor cases".
> http://www.alcor.org/problems.html

Senza dubbio, ma almeno pare che il periodo di "warm ischemia" non sia
stato troppo lungo (non che "qualche settimana" passata in ghiaccio
secco sia l'ideale...) Se e quando il nostro amico inglese sara'
reanimato, sarei sorpreso se non soffrisse come minimo di una parziale
amnesia...

Il fatto che sia un ovvio poor case, btw, significa che dovra'
aspettare piu' a lungo di chi sia stato criopreservato in condizioni
ideali e che dovra' aspettare l'arrivo di tecnologie piu' avanzate.

Includo, qui sotto, il testo sui "poor cases" linkato da Roberto.

Ciao,
Fabio

High Incidence of Poor Cases

In more than 50 percent of cryonics cases legal death occurs before
Alcor standby personnel can be deployed, and is often followed by
hours of warm ischemia. This downtime may cause severe cellular
damage.

The threat of autopsy, in which the brain is routinely dissected, is
an even greater danger. Any person who suffers legal death under
unexpected circumstances, especially involving accidents or foul play,
is liable to be autopsied. Alcor strongly urges members living in
California, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Ohio to sign Religious
Objection to Autopsy forms.

Sometimes cryonicists perish under circumstances resulting in complete
destruction or disappearance of their remains. Cryonicists have been
lost at sea, suffered misadventures abroad, or even disappeared
without a trace. Two members of cryonics organizations were lost in
the 2001 collapse of the World Trade Center towers. One was a
policeman performing rescue operations.

Cryonics is not a panacea or a "cure" for death. The cryonics ideal of
immediate cooling and cardiopulmonary support following cardiac arrest
cannot be achieved in the majority of cases. We have good reasons to
believe that molecular records of memory persist in the brain even
after hours of clinical death, but only future physicians using
medical technology which we do not yet possess will be able to
determine, finally, whether such a person is really still "there."