Transterrestrial Musings: some of the powers-that-be in Arizona want to start regulating cryonics facilities
"The problem, of course, is that there are no laws explicitly applying to the practice of cryonics (and probably shouldn't be, given how poorly-understood a field it is, particularly by the people who would be making the laws). Fortunately, we still live in an America in which, at least in theory, that which isn't explicitly illegal is legal. But some ill-informed people in the Grand Canyon State are apparently unhappy about that.
The head of the funeral association claims that in the process of doing head-only suspensions, Alcor is 'mutilating a body,' which is in theory illegal. Of course, the same could be said of anyone facilitating organ donation, so I don't think that they really want to test this in court."
"The problem, of course, is that there are no laws explicitly applying to the practice of cryonics (and probably shouldn't be, given how poorly-understood a field it is, particularly by the people who would be making the laws). Fortunately, we still live in an America in which, at least in theory, that which isn't explicitly illegal is legal. But some ill-informed people in the Grand Canyon State are apparently unhappy about that.
The head of the funeral association claims that in the process of doing head-only suspensions, Alcor is 'mutilating a body,' which is in theory illegal. Of course, the same could be said of anyone facilitating organ donation, so I don't think that they really want to test this in court."
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