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[Bruce Klein]

Long time cryonics supporter, Chrissie de Rivaz was interviewed by BBC Radio Two as a result of publicity surrounding the frozen sperm story.

LISTEN: http://www.cryonics-...e.org/media.htm



Chrissie de Rivaz writes romantic fiction under her previous name of Chrissie Loveday. REF

[Bruce Klein]

http://www.cryonics.org/ph.html
Andy Zawacki, Dave Gray, and Chrissie de Rivaz

[Bruce Klein]

She handled things beautifully. Very sweet and quite knowledgeable!

There was some question on the death-life definition. It may be more effective to say that rather than dead... the practice of cryonics is a medical procedure that works to extend life.

Give example of how 100 yrs ago a person who would be clinically dead would today still be considered alive. Thus the definition of 'dead' is not clear.

[Bruce Klein]

Example:


Never Say Die
by Graham Southorn
Focus Magazine < http://www.focusmag.co.uk > July 2003 page 70
Interview with Dr Yuri Pichugin, head of research at the Cryonics Institute
http://www.cryonics-...cuspichugin.htm

I hope to be placed in suspension when my body ceases to function and a physician pronounces my legal death. But a legal death is not absolute death, because the human organism continues to be alive at tissue and cell levels. I would like to achieve everything I possibly can in my future life - to become an infinite microcosm in the infinite great macrocosm. -- Dr Yuri Pichugin,

[bgwowk]

She came across as very authoritative and articulate. Everything went very well right up until the moment when the interviewer asked whether cryonics ideally should be done before death. It was a very sensible question because the subject of discussion was afterall these sperm that had their *life*, not death, preserved for years. It was the perfect setup to explain that cryonics too is about preserving life-- even as practiced now. Unfortunately everything went downhill from there. Chrissie was steeped in the 1960s paradigm of cryonics as an interment method rather than a life saving technology for terminal patients. I was left feeling at the end of the interview that the interviewer actually had a better grasp of this issue than Chrissie, and that he was a bit befuddled by her response.

I think Chrissie could be a great spokesperson for cryonics if she would reconsider her thinking on this issue. Cryonics as an interment method is stillborn by definition.

---BrianW