X-Message-Number: 291 From att!uunet!m2xenix!agora.rain.com!batie Wed Apr 10 10:32:40 1991 Message-Id: <> Subject: Re: cryonics #289 - Re: Legalized Murder and Theft To: Date: Wed, 10 Apr 91 7:07:44 PDT From: Alan Batie <> I don't know if this question is appropriate for this list, so feel free to just give me your private thoughts, but I'm curious as to whether or not people in the future will *want* to reanimate anyone, other than to see if it can be done. I can think of a couple of possible arguments against it, mostly based on the postulation that death is a good thing for the species. -- Alan Batie Some people believe they have never met a gay person. +1 503 640-4013 That's what we get for hiding. [ Alan, your question is quite appropriate since cryonic suspension would be rather useless if nobody was going to do the reanimation. The Reanimation Foundation (messages #126, #258, and #286) provides a legal and monetary mechanism to support your reanimation. Another organization, Lifepact (messages #87 and #286) was created largely to ensure that some people of the future would have the motivation to reanimate people in suspension. (Roughly, when a person is reanimated, he or she is responsible for the reanimation of another person.) Also, don't forget the suspension organizations themselves. It is only natural that they get into the reanimation business, once the technology of reanimation is achieved. I expect that when the costs involved are better understood, the suspension fees will also include reanimation fees, too. Hopefully, those people suspended before introduction of reanimation fees will be "grandfathered" in at the old rates. - KQB ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=291