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A member asked:
Is it possible to crack the skull and preserve the brain at low temperatures? without brain dying and the whole spinal cord.
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Hmmmm..: Not sure how to answer. Many an unfortunate individual has actually cracked their head in the snow and been preserved for several hours with complete recovery. How long were you proposing to preserve things? There is no way to remove the brain from the body without detaching the spinal cord - this would be a major stumbling block to preserving anything of use....
Answered 3/22/2013
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