X-Message-Number: 29242
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 21:26:11 -0500
From: Francois <>
Subject: Re: reanimation and resources

>One possible risk is that someone could be reanimated in a world where
>lifespan is still quite limited, and with no chances of amassing enough
>wealth for a second go at cryonics. It could be better to wait awhile in
>cryopreservation until lifespan is less limited.

I don't think potential longevity will be much of a problem to a medical 
technology that can successfully reanimate dead bodies preserved by 
vitrification. Repairing the damage caused by aging will be a trivial task 
compared to repairing the damage caused by death and the preservation 
process. In order to reanimate someone, you will also need a complete 
blueprint of a living human, down to molecule level, in order to guide the 
process. Using the patient's own DNA to make fine adjustments specific to 
that patient should insure successful reanimation as well as reversal of 
aging damage. And, of course, that process will make shortchange of any 
damage caused by the disease or injury that originally killed the patient. 
If you know precisely what's supposed to be in a healthy human body, all you 
have to do to cure any disease is to remove anything that doesn't belong, or 
add anything that is missing. Well, maybe that makes it sound easier that it 
will actually be, but you get the general idea.

Francois

Good health is merely the slowest
possible rate at which one can die.

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