European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 10, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Frozen in time immortality on the instalment plan by Kim Mills associated press for True cryonics is a deep freeze Deal for life after a bid for immortality on the instalment a Longshot race against the dying of the currently there Are 11 of them four human Heads and seven whole bodies lying Frozen inside giant thermos science knows no Way to resurrect but believers say that when today impossible be comes possible they Hope within a Century or two they will be the Heads will be attached to cloned and the people will be brought Back to this is the dream of about a Hundred americans most in Michigan and Florida who have also arranged to be or cryonic ally at the time of their death in Hopes that someday medical technology will be Able to resurrect cryonics presents Many not the least of which is re animating people who have been dead for another hitch is that freezing can permanently alter cell and that different types of cells re quire different freezing techniques to so even if the body is thawed and the heart freezing May have caused Gross but so Strong is the Faith of cryonics its that they talk of a future in which scientists will be Able to clone or limbs and whole and create special repair cells that will move about inside Frozen fixing damaged the freezing process is complicated and attended by the anxious care usually reserved for surgery on the cryonic preservation teams Are on Call at All prepared to Rush to a persons bedside and await the doctors pronouncement of clinical at the Point of the person is placed on heart lung says Paul director of biological research for trans time a cryonics com Pany in we inject them with anti Cool them Down with ice and move them to a the blood is removed and replaced with a kind of Antifreeze solution which is High in Low in sodium and and mimics the inside of a Segall the body is further and when its close to Zero degrees the tissues Are infiltrated with which is thought to protect the cells from freezing the body is then immersed in an alcohol dry ice Bath at minus 79 degrees celsius to Cool it further before the team moves it into a Large vacuum bottle kept at minus 196 degrees celsius by circulating liquid and the if not wait our motto is never say says Arthur president of trans he and other cryonic its cite recent technological advances that have allowed dead people to be revived after heart failure or resuscitated after apparently drowning or freezing to youre dead Only when your current technology can no longer revive agreed Mike president of Alcor life Extension the other major cryonics in Ful believes genetic engineering and cloning will be perfected in the next Hundred years or were going to have the ability to make Trees and plants and other living things by fabricating them from he cry biologists scientists who study living organisms at Low temperatures dismiss the claims of cryonics its As Wishful foolishness As one put a Case of Ponce de Leon they have us Over a barrel says Harold a cry biologist and head of the red Cross cell tissue and Organ preservation no respect Able scientist is going to be willing to say theres any thing that cannot be but its an irrelevancy freezing a whole body is a costly procedure at least so Alcor also offers a bargain rate to those of infinite Faith in future technology for a Mere freeze just your i could be flippant and say Well make a new but that what we Hope to Darwin genetic code there All included in the patients brain or Darwin reasons that the rest is just so much and if the patient died of disease or old what Good is it to come Back to life sick or decrepit we dont have a aesthetic attachment to he As its Only requires Worth of liquid nitrogen compared to a month for a whole body and we can put 10 euro patients in one he the cryonic movement was born in 1962 when Rob Ert a retired physics and math professor who lives in Oak privately published the Book the Prospect of two years double Day published an expanded a photo surgical personnel prepare a patient for cryonic suspension in Ettinger had been inspired by a science fiction Story published in the 1930s by Neal Jones about a professor who had his body after millions of with humanity Mam malian found his restored the brain and put it in a mechanical Ettinger by the about 40 people had been Frozen in but the movement suffered several and a number of those cadavers were some on some one person being kept on ice in had to be defrosted when his survivors refused to make the annual payments for liquid according to others were thawed and conventionally interred when a lab in new York went out of business in the he Darwin boasts that Alcor has never been forced to thaw a patient although it converted some whole bodies to Neur preservation for financial and Quaife says Ettinger is keeping one woman on dry ice in Michigan As a Charity venture because her survivors refused to keep up the liquid nitrogen pay Ettinger refuses to discuss the matter except to say he has one Frozen patient and that quaites information is in the survivors of several people who had sup Posedly been preserved by the cryonics society of Cali fornia in los Angeles obtained a court order to have the crypt a pathologist found four bodies in wooden boxes apparently they had never been Frozen and four other bodies that had defrosted at least three years the discovery led to several six figure Law and the cryonics society of California went Bank the method of paying for cryonic preservation has since been modified to prevent premature and special will forms Are provided by the cryonics companies to give them custody of the persons if you want to be placed in suspension youve got to make the arrangements yourself in and Quaife most people fund suspensions by taking out life insurance the minimum we recommend is the cryonics company is named As and uses approximately to place the whole body in Quaife the remainder is and about a year in interest goes toward maintaining the body in its Frozen he that Trust fund is going to and if the Law and if you come youll come Back Quaife Alcor is not so sanguine about the prospects of taking it with it recognizes that new Laws will have to be written if reanimation Ever becomes and that the folks who do the thawing might be and while cryonics its seem prepared to endow Sci ence and technology with limitless the no Tion that researchers might someday discover a disembodied life or is dismissed As 1 dont believe in Darwin says that Doest mean they dont i could be sadly Mistak that would be a tall Bill of goods to explain to this world i know and i like being do lose1 associated press Steve Bridge would like to go to the become a try his hand at writing and finish the 500 years of Reading materials piled up in his since he Doest think hell be Able to accomplish All this in a he plans to be Frozen when he a 36yearold childrens believes he will be thawed and brought Back to life in a Century or giving him another ground in the i guess i was always sort of primed for growing up As a he said from his Home in As far Back As i can i was telling people 1 wanted to live to be 100 and change the then i realized How Page 14 the stars and stripes difficult those goals Bridge Learned about cryonics around 1975 at a where he met Mike president of Alcor life Extension based in there was this big argument going on and somehow it got turned around to Bridge Mike Ive actually Frozen two and i know How it and All our Mouths after Bridge became Friendly with Darwin but was not yet convinced cryonics was for when i first found out about it sounded like this was the sort of thing that would end up getting done in somebody Bridge i feel a lot More secure about it Bridge made up his mind to be Frozen after a june 1985 three year period in which three of his his Mother and an Uncle when that you Start realizing just How fragile life he Bridge has made financial arrangements with Alcor to have Only his head although he has enough life insurance Over to freeze his entire if there going to be Able to bring me Back to there going to be Able to make me a new body from he if in 85 when i die and i have it might be a lot easier to Start he id like to be fixed up a Little id like to have straighter id like not to have Hay id like not to have to Wear but Bridges main reason for gambling on cryonics is to have More time on Earth to experience As a Ive got at least 500 years of Reading piled up Here in my he in a very curious there Are so Many things i would like to learn about and i just dont have id like to go to outer but right theres no i Wear in already past id like to do something id like to take up a musical or id like to be a but i dont have Bridge admits that he has some doubts about Crayon but believes it has a sporting its like in basketball when you try for that last second he if you dont try for you chivas Side Cik medics by Ron Redmond United press International if youre Ever in the Market in and feel a Toothache coming look for a casually dressed Young Man squatting Between a malodorous pile of garlic and a stall Selling Bat wings and dried that where youll Likely find wan dental pliers in peering intently into a patients gaping Mouth As 20 or 30 curious passersby crowd around to watch a bit of Street Side Oral As the Banner stretched across wans tiny Patch of pavement he can also treat itchy nasal problems and a Host of other All at bargain basement one of thousands of sidewalk health practitioners in wan is a firm believer in Low Over his equipment consists of a Foo powered some stainless steel picks and a couple pairs of a wooden and assorted elixirs in Dusty Brown bottles All spread across a dirty plastic mat Laid out on the to his left is a big pile of grown in the Fertile Fields surrounding a Southern Yunnan prov Ince town a few Miles from the burmese on the right is a table piled High with coiled up dried pickled reptiles in Bird furry Black Bat bottles of chopped up centipedes and a variety of pungent herbs in Brown paper its a pharma one of several in the i pay 20 Fen cents a month to the City for a stall space and can make 30 to 40 Yuan to a boasted 31yearold in not really but in doing wan also believes in the Power of spread out proudly in front of his plastic mat is a Large pile of yellowing including several huge successfully extracted from former wan says he charges up to 4 Yuan to pull a he also dabbles in one recent he used a filling compound and a bit of wire to Correct a unsightly Gap Between a patients two front the a nervous Young Man of about sat with his Mouth wide open and his eyes tightly shut As wan when wan signalled he was the Young Man picked up a Small hand Mirror and admired his new about 20 passersby who took a Short break from shopping to watch the operation nodded Hes a Young intellectual and was embarrassed by the Gap in his wan said As he prepared for his next he had a speech 1 fixed it for four like hundreds of thousands of other practitioners of his wan got his Start in Medicine during the 196676 cultural revolution As a Barefoot following the late chairman Mao tse tunes decree that in medical and health put the stress on Rural wan decided in 1973 to study under a doctor in neighbouring Guichou province and then head for the Countryside to help the i was moved when i read an article on the shortage of medical personnel and the length of time in took for people to get wan 1 studied with a doctor in with patients wan did not have time to go into detail about his 1 2 years of but if he was like most of maos million Barefoot he spent time on a Rural commune treating the minor ailments of hardworking peasants and joining them in the Rice paddies when he want Busy now married with two wan has taken advantage of the governments free Market policies and has started his own practice on the streets of last health minister Cui Ucli announced that doctors and health particularly those without were free to set up on their and Early this the ministry announced that the cultural revolution Barefoot doctor was while Rural doctor was All Barefoot doctors arc being required to take a qualifying depending on their they will practice As Rural health or simply As medical wan said he likes private practice and sometimes sets up shop on a sidewalk in a different part of town to attract he knows his limitations and when someone with a serious complaint comes wan refers him to a local i can fix bloodshot proffered staring intently at the but i cant do anything if youre Dpi photo a dentist in holds his practice on the cites june 1985 the stars and stripes Page 15
