European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 17, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Frozen in time it s our Way of expressing belief in life by Kathleen Maclay associated press or artoua1fe and in other members of the american cryonics society freezing bodies and brains is a logical and alluring Slop toward immortality. Our people Don t die Quaite said Malter of tally in an interview at the spartan trans time warehouse in West Oakland Calif. That s where two human bodies two Heads Ono brain a dog and a cat Are on ice in cryonic suspension inside shiny stainless steel containers resembling giant Silver thermos bottles. They be been Frozen Wilh instructions that they be thawed sometime in the next couple of centuries and with tuck and scientific Progress restored to Lile it s hard to imagine Why anyone would prefer dealt to the Prospect of immortality said Quaile a grading mathematician and a custodian at the warehouse cryonics Laken irom the greek word Kryos to freeze is the Low temperature preservation of human bodies after they be been declared dead. Advocates include 150 members of the san Francisco based american cryonics society begun in 1969. Their average age is 39. About 70 have arranged to to Frozen when they die among them is or Paul Segall. A research physiologist and biologist at the Universy of California Berkeley and trans time Secretary treasurer. While other scientists May be sceptical to believes cryobiology offers exciting possibilities for bloodless surgery cancer therapy and Organ transplant. One possibility he said was help for a child who needs a liver transplant but has no donor. The child could be Frozen then warmed up for a transplant when a liver has been found these Are the practical spinoffs of cryonics research today and they re important he said predicting its most important future application will be in space Medicine. If you re off in the As Robelt you re a Long Way from the medical Cantor Segall said. He sees a space Cotom St being Frozen for weeks or months until Crews can bring him Back. And Lix him  it was recently discovered tha several kinds of frogs can tolerate up to four or five months with their bodies Frozen solid thanks in part to their production of glycerol arid other  substances. Segall said scientists Hope eventually to duplicate this in humans. He and his associates so tar have managed to remove the blood from hamsters and freeze them up to two hours before reviving them and they be also had Success with Segall s Beagle Miles named for the Man in Woody Allen s movie steeper who awakens after being Frozen for 200 years blood was removed from the Beagle and he was kept at a temperature in Jer to degrees centigrade Tor 70 minutes. He was revived and has shown no ill it feels Segaul said what we re doing is realistic. It s not a pie a the sky kind of  he said. Jackson Zinn the cryonics society s president and lawyer agreed. People should nol try to fight it we re going Down that Road ana1 it s inevitable. It s just a matter of working out the  Richad Marsh is a retired san Francisco stale University English and broadcasting professor. He s also a 74-year-old Marathon runner who believes a rile  Sec lety believes death it nol the end Here a deep Frozen body it bang put into storage. Cryonics will someday revive him in a younger slate than he s in now he discounts arguments that me alter death is unnatural or immoral of course we re playing god. You re playing god when you do a heart transplant. You re playing god when Yow Brush your Iseih to prevent Looth decay big said. Among the bodies and parts Frozen at the trans time warehouse is the brain of 15-year-old Patricia Wilson who was beaten to deals in 1968 her lather science fiction writer Robert Wilson explained Why the family decided to have her brain Rozon we feel it s a Long shot but it s our Way of expressing belief in tile and rejection of the casual acceptance of murder and death in our society a said. Quaile said efforts to Stop an autopsy on the gut failed because Stato Taw requires medical examination Ola i homicide victims we decided that the Best thing to do was to preserve her brain and its memories hoping that at some future Date science will find a Way to recons tule a person essentially the same As Patricia Wilson he said inn is one of the few society members who has opted for Douro or brain Only rather than whole body freezing. For one thing i s cheaper. The recommended minimum fee for euro preservation is $50.000, compared to $125,000 Fot whole body suspension he said Quaife has arranged Lor his freezing through we insurance coverage fifty cents a Day for immortality. I like the  some Don t think freezing is much of a Deal for those who hava$125,000 to waste on pursuing immortality you d be better off funding an expedition to search for Ponce a Leon s Fountain of youth that to have your Corpse stored in a  said Tom Anchordoguy a graduate student at the University of California at Davis researching crypt urology. He said state of the Art technology cannot freeze anything close to the size of a human body without irreparable damage and while glycerol reduces tissue damage it can t prevent it Somo people have a misguided belief that anything is possible through science to said. The american cryonics society contracts Wilh trans time to handle the mechanics of freezing people when they die. Quaile said procedures preferably begin at a Hospital where the person has died. The dead patient is put on a heart lung resuscitation machine to maintain heartbeat and keep blood circulating. Ice is gradually applied around the body to lower temperature and various chemicals Are injected next the patient is Laken o a trans time Laboratory where the blood is replaced with a balanced Salt solution and later with one containing glycerol to minimize Lissue damage caused by freezing. That takes 12 to 24 hours Quaile said then it s off to the nondescript Little warehouse were the body will be lucked into a Cooling Chest that resembles a Coltin. The body i covered Wilh dry ice until it reaches a temperature of minus 320 degrees fahrenheit next it is covered with a Oil Type material and put Inlo a bag finally it s suspended in a steel tube Mlod with liquid nitrogen. Quai e said he looks Forward to being Frozen and thawed out when there Are colonies in space. Cryonics society people Don t Leel death is the end says Segall who has arranged to be Frozen along with his wife and daughter. They re not looking Forward to going to the Happy Hunting ground Page 18 the stars and stripes sunday May 17, 1987