X-Message-Number: 22360 Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 21:48:34 -0700 From: Mike Perry <> Subject: Re: Taking It With You >From: "John de Rivaz" <> [#22352] >... > > From: Mike Perry <> > > Subject: Taking It with You > > > 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) > >On **purely** humanitarian grounds, should we be considering cryonics at >all? Life is a mixture of "grounds". > >Pure altruism can be just as damaging as unthinking self centeredness. I agree. I don't really advocate pure altruism either, oneself is also important. But I would not want to feel that I could have saved someone but let them die. The choice one makes could possibly involve accepting a greater risk to oneself so that someone else could have a chance too. I could see myself making that choice, but as I noted before, the "someone elses" are by and large not interested anyway. Mike Perry Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=22360