[asgardshill]

My main concern would be accepting blood from a stranger from a public blood bank. Although it is filtered, there are just so many nasty little pathogens in blood that I would have a high pucker factor needing or using it. That is why I suggested that you save it for your own family's needs the first couple of years (again, if you can even do that), then release it to public availability afterward.

I am unfamiliar with the quantities of blood that are saved in this way. Is there enough to split it into two separate entities? You could donate one and save the other.

[elisabeth]

I am fairly certain that there is only enough for one sample (i.e., it cannot be split). I totally agree that I would rather have my own blood/cells than a stranger's, but in a life-or-death situation, I'll risk getting a stranger's!