Um probably another one of my out-of-date discoveries;
http://www.geocities...veral/lab/3388/
Tetradotoxin is a neurotoxin found in puffer fish and the deadly componant in Japanese delicacy fugu.My favourite cyberpunk author Jon Courtenay Grimwood used it in his novel Red Robe as an assassins poison of choice, plus, apparently it was discover on Haiti by a biologist in the 70s and was used by Voodoo doctors to create zombies.They made a movie based on the book of the same name (Serpent and the Rainbow.)
http://www.erowid.or...rpent_and.shtml
Also the latin name of the puffer fish is Tetrodontidae, fish are symbols of the soul in Xianity and tetra = God in hebrew, perhaps there is some ancient folk-knowledge at work here, or perhaps just wishful thinking on my part, hehe [!]
Soo anyway I was wandering which drugs are being researched as an aid to suspended animation ie for space exploration.Surely the ultimate goal of cryonics is to freeze a preferably genetically enhanced 'corpse', yet allow the uploaded consciousness to re-connect with the physical vessel at will.