X-Message-Number: 16749 Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 07:19:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Scott Badger <> Subject: Re: Why beings of the future WILL reanimate us. Dave Pizer wrote: >In this brief work, I wish to >argue that there will be moral >and ethical reasons why beings >of the future will bring us back. I made this same assertion in an earlier post, maintaining that the medical community will eventually be ethically obliged to reanimate cryonically preserved individuals if they have the means to do so. Do they, after all, leave patients in a coma even when new treatments develop to revive them? It may take a few cryonicists to kick start the process by bringing it into the public eye, though. I would go further and suggest that, although the continued viability of the cryonic facilities that aim to revive us is one of the more serious threats to our successful reanimation, there may be ethical support for the idea that if the medical community believes the technology will be available relatively soon, they or some other group will intervene to prevent cryopreserved patients from being thawed out in the event that Alcor or CI falter for some reason. We'll see though. Scott Badger __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=16749