X-Message-Number: 1551
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 12:37:43 GMT
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Subject: CRYONICS

I am very interested in the concept of cryonic preservation, and have
found the discussion of the topic on this mailing list very informative.
My particular problem with having this procedure carried out on myself
is that I am afraid of waking up in a future `Hell' rather than a
technological `Heaven'. If cryonic suspension, followed by advanced
medical nanotechnology, will allow the possibility of almost unlimited
freedom to experience pleasure, it will also allow the possibility of
unlimited suffering.

I realise that any cryonics organisation that manages to keep its
suspended patients to the point when they can be reanimated probably
has their best interests at heart. But it seems to me that the
possibility always remains that some nightmare scenario can occur,
whereby patients are reanimated but are kept in a situation where
they suffer indefinitely, without even the freedom to ask for euthanasia.

I personally believe that there is a far greater probability that one
would wake up in a `Heaven' rather than a `Hell', but the consequences
of the latter might be indefinite suffering. I suppose I must simply
be a coward but the nightmare possibliities make me think twice.  What
do other people think?  Are these reasonable points or are they simply
the manifestations of a neurotic personality (a fair criticism I think)?
Forgive me if these questions have been discussed before but I am new
to this mailing list.

-- John Eastmond

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