X-Message-Number: 18767 Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 16:20:56 -0500 From: "Henry R. Hirsch" <> Subject: Re: The safest place for the longest time I am in complete agreement with David Pizer that cryonics facilities should be in isolated areas far from large population centers. Unfortunately the exact reverse is true. Our two largest service providers, Cryonics Institute and Alcor, are in the Detroit and Phoenix metropolitan areas respectively. My guess, expressed a number of times, is that successful revival from suspension is most threatened by the risk that the patients will be destroyed before they can be restored to normal life. Like most cryonicists, I believe that future science will find a way to cure our ills, reverse aging, and repair the damage caused by current suspension techniques, IF we wait long enough. That is the big if. We must remain safely preserved for 50 to 200 years. Two things are required: (1) Transfer of our service providers to locations at least 100 miles from big cities. (2) Self contained facilities. The installations must contain liquid nitrogen plants, electric power sources, and enough fuel to run for a couple of years without commercial power. I have investigated these requirements, and they are not beyond our means. We should contact our service providers and express our concerns. I have done so, and I hope that others will as well. If enough us get behind this, it will happen. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Henry R. Hirsch Department of Physiology Phone: (859)323-5438 MS508 Chandler Medical Center Fax: (859)323-1070 University of Kentucky E-Mail: Lexington, KY 40536-0298 USA Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=18767