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Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 11:22:21 EDT
Subject: Basie & Pizer

Basie suggested it would be financially impossible to cryopreserve billions  
of people. Well, let's first look at the U.S.
 
In today's paper there is an assertion that frivolous/phony lawsuits  cost 
every American over $800 per year. (Example: a suit against Ford Motor for  a 
death when the driver fell asleep and went off the road.) $800 a year would  
cover cryopreservation easily.
 
More generally, the real disposable personal income per capita (including  
children etc.) is about  $27,750. One percent of that would be about $278  per 
year--enough to buy a CI membership Option Two. To fund the suspension fee,  

another one percent for life insurance would usually do the job, if begun young.
 
Bottom line--in the U.S. there is essentially no financial problem (except,  
of course, for those who become interested too late and under adverse  
circumstances). Of course, we have always known that our problem here is  

psychological,  not financial, since only a tiny fraction of rich people  are 
aboard.
 
In poor regions of the world it is different, but maybe not as different as  
might at first appear. This is a long story that I don't have time for  now.
Dave Pizer's error, I think, is one often made by litigants--assuming that  
the judge and jury will listen to you and that logic will prevail. The U.S.  

Supreme Court is a farce, with 5 to 4 decisions on the wrong side of what should
 have been open and shut cases. If the nation's top jurists disregard the law 
and  vote their prejudices, you can imagine the chance of logic prevailing at 
lower  levels.
 
Dave, I suggest you ask a few lawyers about your idea. 
 
As for the notion that we should risk ourselves because we might save a lot  
of strangers--well, at the moment I'll just  turn around your request for  

objective data and calculations of probability. Can you display any calculations
supporting your project?
 
Robert Ettinger
 
 


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