Well if they are not legally dead when immersed in the liquid helium, they will be then. Why? You defrost them and they decompose. If they are not dead then it is suicide or murder also.
"information-theoretic death depends on presently unknown details of how the brain works." has no meaning. What that says is X is defined by something unknown...
From the cryonics faq at:
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/tsf/Public-Mail/cryonics/html/00
18.9.html
there are 3 different definitions of "dead" that they use.
clinical death - A person is clinically dead if they are in cardiac
arrest and their pupils do not contract when light is shined
into them.
information-theoretic death - A person has reached information-theoretic
death if a healthy state of that person could not possibly be
deduced from the current state. The exact timing of
information-theoretic death depends on presently unknown details of
how the brain works. The current best estimates put it several hours
after clinical death.
legal death - A person is legally dead if a doctor has signed a death
certificate with his or her name on it. This tends to happen when
the doctor believes that modern technology will not be able to
restore them to health. The criteria for legal death change with
time.
If no physician signs a death certificate, the the person wouldn't be
legally
dead, right? Maybe clinically, but that isn't what matters to copyright law.
I think this makes a great counter to "life+" on the term.
Well medically they are dead, they are just not decomposing as with the
other dead. I don't know anyone who has survived a bath in liquid
helium...or do they use liquid nitrogen?
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael A Rolenz [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 6:16 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] Specific ironies of the CTEA
> Hey...here's another funny thing that could happen...suppose an
> author disappears and is declared dead after 7(?) years. His estate
> sells of all his belongings, gives them away or whatever and distributes
> his assets to heirs. Then the author shows up (Not implausible. Bierced
> disappeared. Traven of Treasure of the Sierre Madre reclused to Mexico).
> Who owns the copyright? Copyright is a FEDERAL right. Being declared
> dead is a state or local one.
What about cryogenics? An author is frozen and NEVER declared dead.