X-Message-Number: 22644 From: "John de Rivaz" <> References: <> Subject: Re: a safe haven for cryonics? Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2003 11:03:34 +0100 Over the period likely to be required before reanimations are possible legislatures may well change their views. As I have said previously, a lot of this depends on whether individuals with power decide that their personal careers or financial positions can be improved by attacking cryonics. If these individuals also have persuasive ability, such as Stalin or Hitler, then whatever the logic cryonics can be wiped out in their country. Just as a supernova can explode in a galaxy and bathe it in life destroying radiation, so can such an individual appear in any legislature anywhere. Therefore no one country is intrinsically safer than any other over long time periods. For the survival of the concept of cryonics, all that is needed is for technological progress to continue. If the universe supports the concept, eventually the total of human knowledge will contain this fact. The survival of individuals now cryopreserved is a rather different matter. Their best chance may well lie in designing cryonics institutions so that there is little financial or career advantages to be obtained in attacking them. Nevertheless, if there are two cryonics facilities near to each other geographically yet in different legislatures, this could be helpful, but whether dewars with patients inside could really be shipped across international borders with one legislature unwilling is practicable is another matter. Smuggling was never popular with authorities, for example see http://homepage.ntlworld.com/quantium/prussia-cove/carter.htm to read on line a contemporary account of went on in Cornwall in the late eighteenth century. The author was also aware of his mortality, which he discusses in the article. Without cryonics to turn to he took up Methodism :-) -- Sincerely, John de Rivaz: http://John.deRivaz.com for websites including Cryonics Europe, Longevity Report, The Venturists, Porthtowan, Alec Harley Reeves - inventor, Arthur Bowker - potter, de Rivaz genealogy, Nomad .. and more Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=22644