X-Message-Number: 22339
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 00:45:36 -0700
From: Mike Perry <>
Subject: Taking It with You

John De Rivaz, #22325, and my comment:

>I have no clear answer, but one possibility is to use surplus funding not to
>boost either your own funding or that of a trust, but to pay for a friend or
>relation to be cryopreserved. Maybe that is the best possible method of
>taking something to the future -- some *one* to stand by your side.

This strikes me as a diabolical choice. As if you are coldly calculating 
whether your chances of survival would be maximized if you (1) overfund 
your suspension, (2) put extra funds into a trust, or (3) make it possible 
for a friend to survive so he/she can "stand by your side" and maybe 
improve your own chances. On purely humanitarian grounds I would strongly 
favor (3), but it strikes me that that is generally not an option. Most 
people really don't seem interested even if you offer to pay the costs--I 
personally know of several such cases.

Mike Perry

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