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In this Radio Cornwall broadcast, one of the interviewees, Mr. Barry
Albin made a slight but understandable misstatement. He referred to
'rose water' and 'natural substances'; solutions that have a useful
purpose and a comforting sound for those bereaved whose relatives have
chosen burial, but that are at best very inexact terms when used in the
context of cryopreservation.
Mr. Albin has often been interviewed about
his more conventional funeral services, where mention of rose water is
common, and has acknowledged that his mention of rose water in this
context was merely a slip. Cryopreservation, of course, is a biological
treatment and not a cosmetic or funerary one.
Funeral directors are
employed by the Cryonics Institute because of their extensive anatomical
and physiological training and expertise, which they use to apply, not
funerary techniques, but rather the Cryonics Institute's preservative
damage-reducing surgical procedures.
Just as Albin's funeral home uses
only Cryonics Institute-approved surgical procedures, so they use only
specially prepared cryopreservative solutions provided by the Cryonics
Institute, and absolutely nothing else. Those solutions do not contain
rose water nor cosmetic or herbal substances.