X-Message-Number: 18259 From: "John de Rivaz" <> References: <> Subject: Re: Look-Out's questions Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 11:26:37 -0000 > From: "loook-out" <> > - how does one contact a re-animator if I live in canada and negotiate my plans for the future? It is up to your cryonics provider to arrange reanimation - you do not need to do it yourself. > - i don't want to sound too out of touch but what is vitrification? The conversion of matter to a glass like state at low temperature instead of freezing it > - i am male and would like to be re-animated with my thoughts and knowledge into a female body. how do i plan this? First you save your life, and deal with these issues when you are reanimated. As far as I am aware no cryonics organisation would want to get involved in promising anything like this. I would also imagine in many instances requests for reanimation in a different configuration or species even could make cooperation from next of kin much more difficult. It has been suggested in the world of the future it may be possible to take on many configurations, including bodies as yet unconceived that can survive in the vacuum of space and in high radiation levels, or under the oceans. But these are issues for the future, not for cryopreservation organisations now. > - i am married and 40 years old with 3 kids now, what plans should i be making? Obtain a means of funding, get your family's consent (see above), and sign up with one of the cryonics organisations. If you are still not sure about signing up, start an investment fund right now - if you change your mind, you can always spend it on something else. If instead of investing you take out life insurance, make sure that it is of an appropriate form for transfer to a cryonics agreement later. > - will the re-animator manage money that can be put aside today for use when awakened? Unfortunately no, but it is likely in the future you may not need money for the purchase of material objects. How the purchase of protection (paying taxes and legal fees) and living space will be arranged I am not sure. You may well be given some money to start off when reanimated. As legal costs are so high it is not really practical to expect cryonics organisations to include formal arrangements about this. Also laws change with time, and any formal arrangements could fail over the time the patient is cryopreserved, possibly for hundreds of years. There is a seperate reanimation foundation, and you can invest in anything until you die, but thereafter, for legal and administrative reasons, your assetts only grow at two or three percent per annum in their own fund. Look on http://www.cryonics-europe.org and click on Reanimation Foundation in the menu for more details an email link. > - would connection would there be between my current self's awareness and when re-animated into another body, will it be similar to wakening from a sleep No one can promise anything, but I would say it would be more like awakening from a general anaesthetic, ie you have no consciousness of passing time. -- Sincerely, John de Rivaz: http://www.deRivaz.com 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 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=18259