X-Message-Number: 16116
From: "John de Rivaz" <>
Subject: Best wishes to the new organisation Kryos
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 11:43:04 +0100

Of course I join with everyone else in wishing all the best to the new
organisation Kryos. However I have this concern:

If a cryonics patient is reanimated by non-nano technology, as is suggested
by the Kryos links posted so far, what would his expectation of life be
then? Maybe he will have no money, the same health as say a 60 year old
today and no prospect of re-employment or paying for any more advanced
medical treatment once he has been rehabilitated. In terms of maximising
lifespan, early reanimation may be a disaster.

Previously the "no money no job" objection could be defeated by the comment
that with nano or similar sourced  indefinite lifespan someone could even
work as what will be regarded as labourer-level for decades and use compound
interest to save a little and eventually afford re-education and better
employment.

A positive for Kryos is that if a reanimation could be achieved in 20 to 30
years, it would be the death-knell for any legislation that hinders any
cryopreservation. If everyone wanted to be cryopreserved, there would be no
more autopsies. They would be seen in law, as well as reality, as murder.

--
Sincerely, John de Rivaz
my homepage links to Longevity Report, Fractal Report, music, Inventors'
report, an autobio and various other projects:
http://www.geocities.com/longevityrpt
http://www.autopsychoice.com - http://www.cryonics-europe.org -
http://www.porthtowan.com


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