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Politics : Long Live The Death Penalty!

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To: louisebaltimore who wrote (389)	1/16/2003 2:49:39 PM
From: Fangorn	Read Replies (1) of 828

Louise, re >Frozen baboons returned to life SCIENTISTS have unlocked the secret of suspended animation by successfully reviving baboons hours after their bodies were packed into crates of ice.< So, the baboons were NOT frozen, contrary to the headline. They had their blood replaced by "Hextend" and were packed in ice for several hours. Their hearts didn't stop, their tissue was not frozen. >The breakthrough, which holds huge implications for the battle against disease and ageing, will allow humans to preserve their ice-cold bodies in suspended animation and wake up years later in the same physical condition. < This "breakthrough" will certainly not "allow humans to preserve their ice-cold bodies in suspended animation and wake up years later in the same physical condition." It is a couple of orders of magnitude between slowing metabolism by packing in ice for a few hours and freezing for years and reviving "in the same physical condition". This claim is an incredible overstatement of what these guys have actually done. re >The principal barrier, however, is popular opinion. "It is like the public attitude to early organ transplants," said Sternberg. "Although everyone will love us when we announce we have reversibly frozen a human being, at the moment this area is not considered socially acceptable. < No Doctor Sternberg, the problem is not social acceptability. The problem is that freezing does irreparable damage to the cells i. e. the formation of ice crystals rupture the cell membranes. Ruptured cells usually die immediately. We can argue about whether they remain alive till thawed and then die. Actual suspended animation is at best a few decades in the future and offers no help in solving the problem of what to do with murderous thugs now or for the foreseeable future. BTW if such a system did work how long would you keep a murderer frozen? 30 years? 100 years? in perpetuity? To a revived thug it would probably seem like he just went to sleep yesterday, is this punishment? If you never revive him how would that differ from execution?

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