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- <text id=90TT1222>
- <title>
- May 14, 1990: American Notes:California
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- May 14, 1990 Sakharov Memoirs
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 35
- American Notes
- CALIFORNIA
- Calm, Cool and Disconnected
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Mathematician Thomas Donaldson, 46, of Sunnyvale, Calif.,
- believes that science will eventually make immortality
- possible, and he wants in on it. Last week he asked a state
- court judge to permit a seven-person team to freeze him, then
- sever his frozen head and store it. Someday, he figures,
- science will provide a cure for the cancer that afflicts him.
- Then, if doctors can master the art of brain transplantation,
- Donaldson's noggin could be thawed out and his brain implanted
- in another body. At $35,000, freezing a head is a good deal
- cheaper than the $100,000 it costs to suspend an entire body.
- </p>
- <p> If Donaldson's suit succeeds in barring interference by
- California officials, he could become the first living person
- to undergo the cryonic suspension process. "I am dying," says
- Donaldson, whose tumor has not responded to therapy. "I might
- later be revived and continue to live." Donaldson's lawyer
- thinks a judgment might come by the end of 1990.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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