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

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