X-Message-Number: 20238
From: "Mark Plus" <>
Subject: Re: The non-inevitability of progress 
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 08:10:14 -0700

In Message #20219, John de Rivaz writes:

>Cryonics needs to keep people cryopreserved until such time as reanimation
to good youthful health becomes possible. As long as they can be kept
cryopreserved, then it doesn't really matter whether this is 60 or 600
years. However the longer the period, the greater the risk of cryonics
failing not because the universe doesn't support such an idea on a physical
basis, but human civilisation destroys it simply so that certain individuals
can earn themselves salaries.

Given the corruption of the legal system, where attorneys are rewarded for 
winning lawsuits for their clients based on contrived grievances, cryonics 
societies are entering an especially dangerous time. They are starting to 
accumulate enough financial assets to be worth suing, but they aren't 
financially strong enough yet to be able to fend off repeated assaults of 
this sort without endangering their patients. And, of course, they are going 
to have to pass the costs of such legal nuisances onto their members, which 
will affect cryotransport's affordability.

Mark Plus
It's not "religious" or "science fictional" if you can do it.



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