Cryonics and the law in Norway.

Thomas Nord asked,

"Does the law permit cryonics?"

Well in Norway it doesn't explicitly mention it,
nor does it explicitly outlaw freezing of dead people.
And it certainly opens for whole corpses being donated to scientific research.
There are so far no provisions denying the local storage in Norway of foreign corpses donated to foreign hospitals and organizations etc.

To be on the safe side in the long run, a Norwegian cryonics organization would either have to cooperate with a private hospital/educational institution, or establish or buy up a small hospital/school, since the law clearly permits the storage of corpses donated to established hospitals, universities and educational institutions.

The government just published a plan opening for bio banks to be established here.

I just received a copy of the government's Bio Bank study. (Norwegian version.)
The government will use the latter to write a Bio Bank law later this year or early next year.

Sincerely,

Trygve Bauge
Received on Mon Jul 02 08:56:40 2001