Dr Boden bought funeral director Monica Miller from Germany

Only some months ago I became a member of CI. I came from Germany together with my local funeral director to see my future grave and the staff of CI, that gives us a little chance or hope of an extended life. I would like to tell you something about my preparations and thoughts about cryonics.

As a medical practitioner we come to know how short human life can be and see the face of death more often then other persons. So we more often than others remember our own impending fate. The cryonics theory I know for over ten years, but when somebody is younger than 50 years he seldom thinks about the end of life, that seems far away. But the time has come to think about a chance to survive.

I could not accept the cruel ageing process with death following since my youth. So I read besides my profession as physician sometimes about gerontology and visited the congress’s of biology this past 15 years in Germany .

There we learned that the progress in biological ageing research is too slow to have a benefit for our generation. The professor of anatomy and gerontologist Mr. Sames from Hamburg remembered me, I read the papers of Robert Ettinger and Ben Best and became a convinced cryonicist.

Then I began the preparations for cryopreservation of my own worthless personality. I made the full funded contract with CI, then, for emergency use, I bought a hand held GPS. The emergency staff for this device, is in Mannheim, after pressing the red button, informs all advised people, including the local funeral .director.

I ordered cooling cushions and cooling blankets that are used in cryosurgery, made trials for first cooling with CO2-gas without success/made contract with a local funeral director The latter was very hard work, only the fifth funeral director would agree to a cryo contract, including cooling/infusion and transport to Michigan/and she is present here today. You know that very few people have our belief and are hard to convince. We must be glad ,when they tolerate cryonics and not fight against it .It is hard to decide if the some hundred cryonicists in the world or the millions others are the fools. Lets remember Albert Einstein, who said "the majority of the foolish is forever secure".

For I prefer to be infused by a pathologist - for he knows the human anatomy much better than a funeral director. I bought the cryoprotective fluid and stored it in my flat. The pathologists of my hometown Dresden do the conservation of dead bodies with formaline over the femoral vene, and I hope in my case they will use my cryoprotectant over the left ventricle of heart or aorta instead of formaldehyde. Following the script of Ben Best over tissue samples surviving rates I chose dimethylsulfoxide 5 % and glycerol 20 % as cryoprotection.

Before that Urokinase against thrombosis and glucose for the brain shall be infused. It is possible that the brain damage occurs by a lack of glucose, not by the missing oxygen. One evidence for this thought seems to me that the rescue of people after being in cold water after 45 minutes without breathing air or oxygen was successful, without any brain damage. It is known, that the glucose reserves of the brain are small and expire within a few minutes without circulation. Therefore I think a simple pump is enough for the perfusion and a heart-lung machine or thumper are not necessary.

As time approaches for my own worthless body for cryopreservation, I foresee four hours after death in a warm room, if cooled the time may be longer. The four hours-border is easily seen by every funeral or doctor, for the chin and arms are stiffened already and the legs are not. Proteins keep fresh or intact for four hours in warmth, then begins deterioration. Naturally this is a feeling from kitchen experience (with meat,) not. a sure knowledge. May be the memory proteins and synapse structures last longer.. .

I am member of a little German cryonics group around Prof. Sames. The members of this group want to build up our own perfusion team and may be storage in Europe. The younger members would like to get some more evidence for the functioning of cryonics in form of the rescucitation of a mammal from the frost, the elderly prefer contracts already. .

The current existing evidence is enough for me to believe in cryonics, for example the Canadian frogs and arctic insects, the parathyreoideal glands and tissue samples that revive from the ice. The few German cryonicists should rather help CI with all their small forces. CI needed 30 years to build up the current level of facilities, techniques and know how. It is better to get the cryonicists together, not to divide them.

Every foolish little religion or sect has more believers than our scientific based theory! Besides, I think a pathologist will do the perfusion better than any layman, who almost never saw a dead person in his life. But the thought of a storage place in cold northern Europe is not so bad, this would help our American friends too in the case of changes in politics or law in the USA.

And this is the end of my speech. I hope we all meet again in good health and intelligence some hundred years hence.

Now let us forget the ice for a while, drink some wine, smoke a cigar, look at nice girls. Only a cheerful life is worth to be prolonged.

Thank you for listening.