X-Message-Number: 13637 Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 09:54:29 -0400 From: Thomas Donaldson <> Subject: CryoNet #13630 - #13635 Several comments: 1. First of all, to any reader who subscribes to my periodical PERIASTRON, I apologize for the lateness of the March 2000 issue. It is not late for any reasons dealing with the fact that I have taken up residence in Australia again; the reasons are purely personal, even though they've eaten up lots of time I would have otherwise spent on putting together PERIASTRON. This is the latest it has ever been. I will be having it printed and mailing it out some time on Wednesday or Thursday. 2. I plan to send personal messages, but one thing these most recent cryonets seem to lack is a lack of discussion of advances in cryonics research. Yes, ever since Saul Kent and Bill Faloon got together to support such research, it has existed. I am particularly interested in advances which happened after the 1998 Seminar. 3. And finally, for those who have read my message about setting up cryonics in areas where it does not now exist: I am basically suggesting that you join an existing cryonics society to start, and then do whatever extra planning (including setting up people who will help you if you cannot act for yourself --- something which often happens when you get ill enough to die --- in return for you doing the same for them). I hardly claim that this is a complete solution, but it is a start. And everyone has ties, including their jobs (if they are still working) to where they live now, wherever that may be. It is going to be a whole lot harder to migrate than to set up a scheme by which you can be suspended in the most likely cases (some warning that you are likely to die). Moreover, no law forbids you from coming to the US to die there, while lots of immigration laws make it hard to come to the US to live there. I hope that this issue is plain. As for that extra planning, it is not trivial at all. But it IS doable, and moreover provides a start, while wishing about immigration to wherever is unlikely to work for many people. Best and long long life to all, Thomas Donaldson Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=13637