X-Message-Number: 26485 From: 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 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=26485