Yesterday (2/14/08) Guardian.co.uk ran an article about cryonics in
their technology section. It is one of the better articles that have
been published in a mainstream media source. In addition to much of
the same information about the main Alcor and Cryonics Institute that
are used by other writers, Wendy M Grossman also obtained positive
views from a non-cryonics scientist, Lance Becker, director of the
Penn Center for Resuscitative Medicine.


>> Becker is not directly concerned with cryonics, but it's easy to
see connections. Becker wants to extend today's five-minute window for
successful resuscitation after the heart stops.

"Fundamentally," he says, "what we are focused on is bringing
people back to life from death or near-death, and reinventing or
revolutionising the way we approach that." Becker's key discovery is
that cells don't die during that five-minute window. The real damage
comes when the heart restarts and oxygen floods the tissues, a process
known as reperfusion.

"It's pretty well accepted that at the point at which the usual
human being gets pronounced dead, all their cells are alive. It's a
very eerie question: if all their cells are alive, what is death?"
says Becker. Besides, if all the patient's cells are alive, why can't
the patient recover and walk out of the hospital? "With our current
therapies we can't do it."<<

The entire article can be read at http://tinyurl.com/3954nf

Cryonics is the practical method for when all else fails -
http://morelife.org/preserving/

**Kitty