X-Message-Number: 26190
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 16:16:58 -0400
From: Henry R Hirsch <>
Subject: Advantages of permafrost burial

         As Doug Skrecky pointed out in message #26176, permafrost burial 
won't work unless supplemented by mummification, and that has many 
drawbacks. However combined mummification and permafrost burial do have two 
advantages: 1. The location is remote. Destruction by war or terrorism is 
very unlikely.  2. Once the patient has been mummified and buried, no 
further attention is required until it is time to revive him or her. The 
process is "passive."
         I believe that we stand a good chance of revival from cryonic 
suspension if we are not destroyed by war or civil insurrection.
Services provided currently by our cryonics organizations are highly 
vulnerable to physical destruction and to interruption of liquid nitrogen 
supplies. We should move our facilities at least 100 miles from any large 
cities and equip them with power generators, a one-year or greater supply 
of fuel, and their own liquid nitrogen plants. This would be expensive, but 
not prohibitively so. We would then approach the level of safety from 
destruction afforded by passive mummification and permafrost burial.

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