Posted on 12/26/2016 1:26:33 PM PST by kevcol
Alcor, which began storing bodies in 1982, is one of the world's largest cryogenic facilities. It has 1,100 paying members on its books, and there are currently 149 patients at the facility, including the youngest person ever cryo-preserved (a two-year-old from Thailand), as well as baseball star Ted Williams.
"These people are potentially revivable – they are like people in a deep coma. They have rights, they can't just be disposed of at any time," More insisted.
The company has a watch list of members in declining health. A "standby" team is sent to be nearby the patient when he appears to be close to death.
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Larry Niven employed the term in Rammer (1971), a short story in his collection A Hole in Space, originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction, later enlarged into the novel, A World Out of Time (1976). Niven’s protagonist is awakened in a society which gives no legal rights whatsoever to corpsicles.[3] In The Integral Trees (1983) and its 1987 sequel The Smoke Ring, set in the same universe, the pejorative term eventually becomes worn down to “copsik,” meaning “slave.” Niven also uses the term in The Long Arm of Gil Hamilton novella The Defenseless Dead, published in 1973. The story includes debate about the legal right of frozen persons to continued physical support after their personal funds are exhausted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpsicle
Democrats have been doing that at election time since at least 1818.
Dr. Rawlings was also a self-professed atheist who did not believe in souls, spirits, angels, or hell… that is, until he had a very unusual experience with a patient who complained of chest pains, and by direction of Dr. Rawlings, underwent a cardiovascular “stress test”. While going through this “stress test” which requires that the patient walk, jog, and then run on a treadmill, while the doctor records the rhythm of the heartbeat, Rawlings recalled that the patient had a cardiac arrest and dropped dead right in his office. As Dr. Rawlings described it, “Instead of fibrillating (twitching without a beat), the heart just plain stopped. He crumpled to the floor, lifeless.” As the body was going through a series of scattered muscle twitching and convulsions, his body was gradually turning blue. As this happened, Dr. Rawlings began another procedure. He found that the man’s heart was completely blocked.
Trying to bring the patient back to life, Dr. Rawlings attempted to install a pacemaker. After working with trying to install the pacemaker, and nurses around the patient doing all they can to help Dr. Rawlings revive him, Rawlings recalls that the patient began “coming to,” and what happened terrified Rawlings.
According to Rawlings, “…whenever I would reach for instruments or otherwise interrupt my compression of his chest, the patient would again lose consciousness, roll his eyes upward, arch his back in mild convulsion, stop breathing, and die once more.” But then, “Each time he regained heartbeat and respiration, the patient screamed, “I am in hell!” He was terrified and pleaded with me to help him. I was scared to death. In fact this episode literally scared the hell out of me!"
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Almost spit up my coffee on that one! ;)
YES! “Fill” is a perfect way to describe it!
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