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A French couple, husband and wife cryonicists, died when their freezer lost power.

Posted by Rand Simberg at March 17, 2006 01:14 PM
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That's a pretty cool story.

Posted by Astrosmith at March 17, 2006 03:05 PM

Not cool enough..................

Posted by Mike Puckett at March 17, 2006 05:19 PM

Shoulda used a Westinghouse. You can be sure, if it's Westinghouse.

Posted by McGehee at March 18, 2006 08:26 AM

A shame. But that's why Alcor and other cryonics providers don't go that route. Cryosuspension using active refrigeration, espically on your own, without a dedicated provider to look out for you, and for what may be a century or so, is both too risky, and may indeed *not* be cold enough, either.

Why suspend in liquid nitrogen? Hugh Hixon explains:

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http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/tsf/Public-Mail/cryonics/archive/0015.txt

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http://www.alcor.org/Library/html/HowColdIsColdEnough.html

Posted by Frank Glover at March 19, 2006 11:17 AM


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