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Subject: CRYONICS response to john eastman
From:  (Scott Herman)
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 93 19:00:47 PST

A respone to John Eastmans questions.

John you write:

>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.

Your quite right there is always a possibility we could wake up in hell
instead of heaven so to speak, but that is one of those things that we
except as a possibility, moreover one of the reasons we undertake this
adventure is because we are curious of the unknown and what the future
might hold for us, so let me put it this way, and no offense or malice
intended, but if you are affraid of the unknown then Cryonics and the
future are not for you, if your not then you may or may not be surprised
at what the future holds.

You know when I first got interested in Cryonics some of my friends
would ask me, well suppose you get to the future and you don't like it
or it's a hell you don't like, and I would respond with.
Well I can take a gun with me and if I don't like it I can Always
blow my brains out and that would be that.

We don't really honestly know what the future will hold but it stands
to reason that by the time we wake up man kind will have evolved far
enough to have over come turning the world into a hell. It's kind of a
situation of you'll just have to try it.



>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.

If the world where hell, I would think that those caring for us would
probably put us in hiding and not wake us up untill things got better
if they ever did, but what I am driving at is we watch out for our own
so future cryonist would not revive us if the world were a hell hole.


>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.

If you have the odasity to think about this then I don't think you are a
coward and I don't think they are ramblings of a nut....
To not even consider it or just plain say it's crazy then, well thats
a person of a different kind. You have asked some good questions and
I don't think anyone will fault you for doing so, and yes even some
of us think of these possibilities too.

Sincerely Scott Herman ()

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