X-Message-Number: 2627 Subject: CRYONICS.SCI Re: Spouses/Partners not signed up From: (Edgar W. Swank) Date: Sat, 26 Feb 94 00:42:24 PST Thomas Donaldson said in msg 2623, Frankly, Perry, I don't see how you do that at all. If my wife (who IS a cryonicist, though we disagree on many other things) were not signed up, I would find it unbearable. This is so even though I also believe that we are each responsible for our own fate. But not to be signed up? It would feel as if my wife were about to step off a cliff, or into the path of an onrushing locomotive. Ideas about responsibility or not... I'm in much the same position as Perry. My wife is not signed up, although she's certainly been exposed to the concept. I don't understand Thomas' feelings. The chances of my marriage, or -any- marraige, surviving the suspension of one or -both- partners is quite small, IMHO. Even if both are signed up, suspensions of two partners are likely to be separated by a number of years; revivals are likely to be separated by an even greater period of time. (Unless the partners leave instructions to delay one revival until both can be done -- a bad idea). Since the need for human companionship is constant, it's likely the partner remaining animated (either before or after suspension) will seek a new companion. -- (Edgar W. Swank) SPECTROX SYSTEMS +1.408.252.1005 Cupertino, Ca Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=2627