X-Message-Number: 26263 Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 08:31:31 -0400 From: Robin Helweg-Larsen <> Subject: Reanimation instructions This posting is about the issue of what instructions are left, or should be left, for eventual reanimation. The topic has been covered before, but I suggest it should be revisited periodically because our own present-day concepts about it are probably evolving all the time. 1) My instructions request no experimental reanimation, but only when it is a routine matter. I will not feel any sense of urgency. 2) My preferred physiological age will be 25, give or take 3 years. 3) As a neuro suspension, I will have options on initial body structure. I prefer to be a turn-of-the-millennium normal male human as I am now. I see no reason to request to change my skin color or the shape of my nose at this point, though I would like built-in options for a variety of mental and physical enhancements if I should feel like them in 3 months or 3 years. I would like to re-start fresh in the Brave New World, and see it through my existing perception and memory, but I know that I will likely want to make radical adjustments fairly soon after. 4) If, for whatever reason, the choice is between 'do it on reanimation' or you're out of luck, then I would want enhanced memory and processing power. I would *not* want automatic mental or physical links or connections of any kind to any other person, no matter how standard they have become. 5) I do not want my sleep patterns altered, even if then-current medical thinking is that some periods of sleep are unnecessary. I do not want my DNA altered, even if then-current medical thinking is that some of it is "junk DNA", until I have had time to study the matter myself. I do not want to be more than 1 inch taller than I am now, even if people in general continue to become taller. I do not want to be more than 1 inch shorter than I am now, even if people in general have moved to become shorter. I do not wish to be muscled differently, other than to make sure my ankles are not as damaged as I have made them in my present life. I prefer flexibility and stamina over strength. 6) I do not want to be reanimated into a situation in which I am forced into any legal commitments or obligations before I have had a full opportunity to understand the workings of society. That will do for a start. How do other CryoNet readers see the issue? Robin HL Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=26263