CRYONIC SOLUTION A
California mathematician suffering from a brain tumor has gone to court in search of permission to have himself frozen to death. Thomas Donaldson, 46, of Sunnyvale, Calif., is a longtime proponent of cryonics, the controversial practice of deep-freezing people after they’ve died in hopes that someday they can be thawed and revived. But he wants to go one step further and have himself frozen before he’s legally dead. Actually, he wants to have his head separated from his body after freezing in hopes that future scientists will discover a way to cure the tumor and attach his head to a healthy body. “I don’t want to die,” said Donaldson, who has a doctorate in mathematics from the University of Chicago and is senior mathematician for MIMD Systems, a small software company in Belmont, Calif. “All the other choices I know lead to certain death, whereas this one leads to some uncertain end. It seems to me this one is clearly superior.…
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