X-Message-Number: 13630 From: "John de Rivaz" <> Subject: Re: Expansion Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 11:07:29 +0100 LN2 isn't a problem - it is often regarded as a waste product when liquid oxygen is extracted from the air. Liquid oxygen is required in vast quantities by industry or just as a way of getting pressurised oxygen gas for welding and similar processes. The political risks are more difficult, it is simply a matter of whether some pressure group gets anxious that cryonics may harm it and sets up a scare campaign. On the basis that cryonics encourages people to save money and that usually governments like their citizens saving money then governments should like cryonics. There are many legal obstructions to cryonics as things stand at present. Therefore the legal profession as a group can expect fee income from cryonics and if cryonics expands so will the fee income. The legal profession is grossly over-represented in most legislatures (ie the ratio of lawyers to other people is greater in legislatures compared to the outside world), and therefore its subconscious evolution of systems to increase the profession as a whole's income should bias against an outright ban. However we have seen one such deliberate ban appear in British Columbia, and existing laws in France and Japan appear to make matters difficult. It may be, though, if cryonics were to grow in other countries these bans will be overturned due to pressure from freedom groups and indeed the legal profession's maximising its business. I have it at the back of my mind that transplant surgery has only recently appeared in Japan. Would it have done so if it wasn't first available in most other countries? -- Sincerely, John de Rivaz my homepage links to Longevity Report, Fractal Report, my singles club for people in Cornwall, music, Inventors' report, an autobio and various other projects: http://geocities.yahoo.com/longevityrpt TN <> wrote in message news:NxKM4.10307$ > Memory is short sometimes, this has been up before but needs a refresh. If > some of us can make Cryonics expand a lot, isnt there some political risks > and are there LN enough and cheap to produce for many more? > > -- > E-mailaddress at Org, or ROT 13 on: > > > > > Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=13630