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Date: Thu, 18 Feb 93 11:14:35 EST
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From: Ken Stone <>
>HIV suspensions are only particularly difficult and hazardous *for
>people who aren't already infected with HIV*.

Won't the HIV+ suspension team member be vulnerable to catching a wide
variety of opportunistic infections that the recently legally dead
person probably has?  I don't know how much of a concern this should
be in practice.

>Given a reasonable marketing effort within the HIV+ community, I
>predict that one could find a vast amount of medical experience which
>could be invaluable to cryonics-- along with a community of motivated
>people who haven't had 60+ years to get too accustomed to the idea of
>aging and dying.

Does anyone have a feel for whether this would make us be perceived as
vultures, and whether being perceived that way would be a problem?

These aren't rhetorical questions; I'm asking because I have concerns,
but I don't have enough knowledge to say whether the concerns should
be taken seriously.

Tim Freeman <>    
When they took the fourth amendment, I was silent because I don't deal drugs.
When they took the sixth amendment, I kept quiet because I know I'm innocent.
When they took the second amendment, I said nothing because I don't own a gun.
Now they've come for the first amendment, and I can't say anything at all.

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