... should be great if your heat sink temperature is well below zero degrees (you can pick Celsius or Fahrenheit here).

If you think you are an atheist and not scared of death

Why should you be scared of nonexistence? You already know what it feels like. Just try to remember the time before you were conceived. That's what it feels like to not exist.

Not very scary, is it?

I don't think that word means what you think it means. If it can kill, it is pretty toxic

If you take all proteins out of your food, it's not the remaining nutritents that kills you, but the lack of protein.

You don't need a gun at your nightstand, it's never going to be a matter of seconds that saves you.

If you're paranoid and don't lock every single door in your house, including the bedroom door, before you go to sleep, you're doing it wrong.

One sad aspect of suicide, out of many, is that a suicide victim never gets to see for themselves that life does in fact get better.

In the long run, everyone dies.

... people will start throwing themselves in front of trains. Which traumatizes train drivers and at least inconveniences everyone else on the train.

Suicide is a cultural problem, not one of availability (or unavailability) of certain means. The suicide rate of, say, the US and Germany is pretty much the same, despite guns being much more accessible in the former than the latter. However, the train network is much more developed in the latter.

People should, however, be educated about really shitty ways of killing yourself, like overdosing on acetaminophen and the like.

The banks in countries with FATCA treaties will ask for US person status whenever you try to open an account, and you don't want to get caught make false statements. Also, the banks are usually obliged to look for more and less obvious signs of US persons among their customers, like frequent money transfers to or from the US. Lastly, the banks customer representatives must report any customers of which they know that they are US persons.

Also, have a look at the possible fines for violating FBAR requirements. It's crazy stuff.

They don't lose anything by becoming citizens

They will lose the ability to do meaningful banking in countries that have signed FATCA-treaties with the US.

They'll have to submit FBARs.

etc...

Thanks to the new FATCA regime imposed upon the world, banks in NZ are tying to detect her US citizenship so her details and financial info can shared with the NZ IRD who will then pass it on to the US IRS.

You're lucky! Where I live, banks have realized that they can avoid the whole FATCA rigmarole by not accepting US persons as customers. You want a securities account? Great. Oh, you're a US person? Sorry.

This US person "disease" also spreads via power of attorney. You're not a US person, but your spouse is and you gave him or her power of attorney over your accounts? Well, you better revoke that or have your accounts cancelled.

Being a US person (which isn't the same as a US citizens, but usually US citizens are also US persons) will make dealing with foreign banks very, very painful. Thanks to FATCA (google it), foreign banks will just refuse to deal with US persons (or at least refuse to give them more than a regular checking account. No stock market accounts, etc). This goes as far as threatening to cancel the accounts of non-US-person spouse if US-person other spouse has power of attorney over these acounts. Don't laugh, this happened to me.

Also, there's FBAR - foreign bank account report. A US person must report any and all of their foreign accounts, even if they don't owe any taxes. Should you happen to forget that, the fine can be as high as the maximum value of each account - for every year that you forgot to file.

A spinal cord is more complicated - obviously.

Spinal nerves are a completely different beast than peripheral nerves. The latter do regrow on their own, slowly. The former don't.

I got my hopes up. :( I have a syrinx.

Mine's right below the tumor that caused it. Neurological crap is some of the worst crap.

There is a huge difference between repairing trauma damage and repairing a clean planned surgical cut.

These guys aren't planning to repair a surgical cut, they're planning to graft the spinal cords of two different bodies together.

Maybe they should try to fix a regular decapitation first. Put the head back on the same body and prove that most of the nervous connections still work.. Even that would be worthy of a Nobel prize in medicine.

Spinal cords? We're just missing a *CONCEPT* somewhere, a molecule, a messenger, INFORMATION.

The same is true for curing cancer, every genetic disorder, and every viral disease.

Also, we don't even know if a solution exists.

Do heart transplants involve cutting the organ in halft and putting it back together?

This isn't like pursuing heart transplants before being able to fix each and every heart defect. It's like pursuing heart transplants before being able to do surgical sutures.