I think there is a virus in my head
ceridwen 01 Apr 2014
YOLF 01 Apr 2014
By the time you are reanimated, they will have a cure for your ills. That is part of the cryonics contracts. Patients are "individually wrapped" or sealed for safe storage, esp. neuro patients whose heads are placed in something that looks like a stainless steel paint can. Though if the wrapping or seals allow leaks, I'm sure they'd take the health records of everyone in the cryotube into consideration and wait until vaccines were found for all of the conditions afflicting the community of a particular cryotube before reanimating any of them. Additionally, it is possible to maintain a patient at a gaseous nitrogen temperature similar to what is done for cord blood.
CC
Good luck with your health, have posted anything in our other forums?
Edited by cryonicsculture, 01 April 2014 - 07:01 PM.
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ceridwen 06 Apr 2014
benbest 15 May 2014
CytoMegaloVirus affects your immune system more than your cognitive processes. See:
http://www.lef.org/m...a-Israel_02.htm
niner 19 May 2014
It's probably not a virus at all, but rather one of the more common dysfunctions. I really doubt that it's killing you. You can relax in the knowledge that whatever it is that's troubling you will not make it past your reanimation, nor will it be a danger to anyone else.
sthira 19 May 2014
...neuro patients whose heads are placed in something that looks like a stainless steel paint can.
How many heads are out there in those paint cans?
niner 19 May 2014
How many heads are out there in those paint cans?...neuro patients whose heads are placed in something that looks like a stainless steel paint can.
At least one guy that used to hang out here, and a lot more. Alcor has 124 patients (as they refer to them), the majority of whom are neuro rather than full body preservations. There are at least two other smaller cryo preservation organizations that I know of.
Edited by niner, 19 May 2014 - 02:15 AM.
YOLF 19 May 2014
...neuro patients whose heads are placed in something that looks like a stainless steel paint can.
How many heads are out there in those paint cans?
I don't know the actual numbers, but it's quite a few. Something like 100 at Alcor and 10 at KrioRus. I'm not sure whether or not Oregon Cryonics has frozen their first human patient or not yet. The Cryonics Institute only does whole body and has about 110 patients in cryostasis.
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niner 19 May 2014
Isn't William O'Rights at CI? He's neuro. I didn't realize that CI was that large.