Instructions for the Induction of Solid State Hypothermia in Humans
In the pages linked below, you'll find a "cryonics procedures manual" published in 1972.  It was intended to serve as an easily updated reference source for multiple organizations, gathering good ideas from all concerned, for mutual benefit. Due to the extremely small number of people who were possible contributors at that time, and tendencies toward secrecy vs. sharing information among organizations, this publication never went beyond the initial, embryonic state in which you see it here. Notwithstanding this failure to "get off the ground", in the attempt to be comprehensive, a great number of topics were addressed, at least in a preliminary way.  Thus, in these pages, there may be insights that could still add value in thinking through all of the factors involved and steps that might be required, in maximizing a suspension's quality. In reading over the material here, one thing we hope strikes home is the vast number of situations and contingencies that can be involved, in a member's being suspended.  The only alternative to attempting to cope with this wide range of varying circumstances, at great cost and risk of compromise to suspension quality, is to limit the uncertainties and reduce the number of things that can go wrong.  The member needs to be in a highly accessible and monitored location.  All important factors need to be covered on a local basis, from standby teams and suspension providers to cooperative public officials. For those in fragile situations, particularly for patients in hospice status, only one thing makes sense, and that is to be amidst people who understand what might be needed and are prepared to do it.  If the pages that follow serve no purpose other than raising the level of consciousness on that point, among those who might benefit, then placing them here will have been worthwhile. Boundless Life, Fred & Linda Chamberlain
ps:  The index is hyperlinked to the various sections, but only a few hyperlinks have been placed on the internal cross references as yet, and these are there only to illustrate how this might help.  With time, we may expand on this, so the old "manual" becomes more accessible, more quickly, than it ever could have been in its original form.  Also, there is the possibility of adding links to external pages, for many purposes, including generation of a current on-line "manual" for all who might benefit. We invite you to return from time to time, to monitor changes of this kind, and we invite your comments.  There seems to be a rising interest on the part of members of the Cryonics Institute, to do more than just passively wait for death to strike.  It was in exactly this spirit that we drafted the first few pages of what you are about to see, as members (then) of the Cryonics Society of California, in the fall of 1971.  Now, as then, we seek others who share this spirit.
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	The brownish color of the pages bespeaks a document printed on beige paper using a second hand ($15) mimeograph, in a small apartment's living room.  The loose leaf binder holes and handwritten entries tell you that prior to generation of later documents to be used as actual protocols for suspensions, there was the thought that this document might be of service to a world afire with enthusiasm for cryonics, a world that has yet to materialize.  The drawings, including copies of anatomical sketches, were cut into wax mimeographs with hand tools.  The cutting edge of word processing in those days was an "IBM Selectric" typewriter.  That seems as if was a long, long time ago, and yet, in some ways, it seems as if it were only yesterday.  May you live long and prosper!  Fred & Linda
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