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From: Tim Freeman <>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 08:05:52 -0700
Subject: Preparing for dementia or depression

At a recent meeting in Sunnyvale, someone in attendence reported that
years ago he took some bad sleeping pills and slept very poorly for a
week.  Then he became delusional (or perhaps just depressed?) and
called his cryonics suspension provider at the time to cancel his
contract.  Within hours he was clearheaded enough to call back to say
the first call was a mistake and to ignore any subsequent calls from
him cancelling his cryonics.  (The idea that it makes sense for a
cryonics organization to accept a phone call as adequate evidence of
cancellation was part of the temporary problem, rather than something
he or I believe right now.)

Has anyone set up legal paperwork to try to prepare for this
situation?  It would basically say that in the absence of
well-organized effort by the patient over a long period of time,
attempts to cancel cryonics paperwork should be interpreted as signs
of dementia or depression and ignored.

I know that an issue of Alcor's newsletter had a proposed form for
this.  Has anyone used it?  Does anyone know offhand which issue? 

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Tim Freeman                                                  
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