X-Message-Number: 28290
From: "John de Rivaz" <>
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Subject: Re: Embryo cryonics
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 12:39:24 +0100

> From: Kennita Watson <>
> This [embryo preservation] points out a coming regulatory nightmare and
huge
> expense that may come down the pipe soon.  At whatever
> point it becomes clear to the Powers That Be that cryonics
> can actually work, we will need to comply with all the same
> regulations that the embryo-storage places have to comply
> with now.

It would also place the authorities in a dilemma. If their regulation would
effectively bankrupt the cryonics organisations, then as the patients are
live people they would come under state medical care. I would imagine that
what would happen is that people in authority would act according to the
regulations without thought for the consequences, and the state would then
be left to pick up the now inflated costs for keeping the patients preserved
and also for reanimating them.  What would **not** happen is that the
patients would be thawed, except as part of the reanimation process.

This is not ideal, but it is not totally negative either.

I wonder whether cryopreservation would enter the mainstream medical agenda,
as it is clearly cheaper than caring for severely disabled people for
indefinitely long periods. Also once the whole thing has official approval
many patients could prefer to go to sleep until they could be properly
cured.

-- 
Sincerely, John de Rivaz:  http://John.deRivaz.com for websites including
Cryonics Europe, Longevity Report, The Venturists, Porthtowan, Alec Harley
Reeves - inventor, Arthur Bowker - potter, de Rivaz genealogy,  Nomad .. and
more

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