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From: Kennita Watson <>
Subject: Re: revival instructions
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 02:39:26 -0800

Chris Manning wrote:
>
> How will CI (or Alcor) decide when to revive people? ...
>
> CI apparently has no policy of asking people signing up for
> suspension whether they have any revival instructions. (And I gather
> Alcor does not have one either.) I mean instructions concerning which
> medical advances the person wants to wait for.

IIRC, the Alcor membership form asks if you have such instructions.
It might be worth rereading mine -- kind of like updating one's
will.
>
> ... The person might want to be revived
> as soon as they can be restored to life and health, but with an aged
> body, or they may prefer to be left in suspension until a cure for
> old age is found.
>
> And we are assuming that a cure will in fact be found. How long might
> the wait be? How long is it reasonable to wait before assuming that a
> cure isn't going to be found? A suspendee might not want to be kept
> in suspension for more than a certain amount of time. They might feel
> that they can 'handle' the possibility of being revived in the year
> 2100 but not the year 2500 or 3000.

They might -- if you don't know (they didn't leave instructions),
why not reanimate them and ask?  If the conditions aren't right,
they can go back into suspension.  Maybe they'll reevaluate
matters once they're reanimated.  They might prefer to be
uploaded, or to be maintained on the 23rd Century's equivalent
of life support, or to think about it using an augmented brain.
Remember, there's risk in being in a dewar.  While liquid nitrogen
arrests decay, other things can happen -- legal, political,
sociological, etc.  Also, there's lost-opportunity cost -- the
world is going on while you're in a dewar, and the interesting
stuff is happening out here.

Live long and prosper,
Kennita
--
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
none but ourselves can free our minds.
           -- Bob Marley, "Redemption Song"

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