X-Message-Number: 18880
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 10:07:59 -0800 (PST)
From: Scott Badger <>
Subject: Re: Your right to Self-Determination

It annoys me to no end that my body becomes the
property of someone else (the state, I guess)
immediately upon my "legal" death. Why doesn't it make
sense that, like everything else that I owned, it
becomes part of my estate. Hell, it's my most valued
possession! My last will and testament should be
consulted to determine who exactly I want to be in
charge of it. If I personally have no rights upon my
death, the person I bequeath my body to certainly
should. I thought that was what was happening when I
bequeathed my body to ALCOR but apparently these local
bureaucrats can do whatever they want. 

One thing I do have going for me is that I've recently
established my county's coroner as my personal
physician and, though he has says he has thought
little about cryonics, he claims to have no negative
bias about it. That's about the best I can probably do
around here. Hopefully, I'll live long enough to
retire to Ventureville, significantly increasing my
chances for a quality suspension. I'm losing faith
that anti-aging technologies will arrive soon enough
for me to avoid the need for being suspended given the
very conservative ethical mentality that is clearly
going to be in force for a while.

Cryonics, the service you hope you never need.

It's kinda like any other kind of property insurance.
You want to be able to fix or replace your important
stuff like your car or your house (or your brain). But
it's always a gamble because the insurers are only
able to come through if certain conditions are met.
Still, it's just stupid not to be covered. For those
of you not signed up yet, how much are you spending to
insure your other stuff?

Best regards,

Scott Badger

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