X-Message-Number: 18960 Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 09:06:30 -0400 From: Thomas Donaldson <> Subject: CryoNet #18955 - #18959 HI everyone! Platt's comments are very good and worth thinking about and acting upon. The main issue we need to address is that of how to bring "mild" deaths up to "very mild", "bad" deaths up to "mild", and so on. How far that can ultimately go remains unknown. However, just to discuss one kind of "bad" death, actually implementing the plans I have seen which warn your cryonics society if your heart stops, or even if you have a heart attack, deserve to be widely done... and possibly looked at for ways to do the same thing less expensively. Telling your cryonics society that you've just had a stroke looks harder to do, but may count as the second step in a program to make fewer bad deaths. If you encounter heart problems in the middle of the Amazonian jungle it may well become possible to inform your society of your problem; if nothing else this would bring a quicker reaction than if they were informed by a 3rd party who simply considered you dead and wrote to them by mail. (I'm thinking of satellites which detect radio signals from the ground and pass them on to their destination). This is one way a very bad death might be turned into a bad death, an advance... and as some have justifiably said, every bit may turn out to count. Go advice. I hope that we can go out and follow it. Best wishes and long long life, Thomas Donaldson Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=18960