X-Message-Number: 29263
From: "John de Rivaz" <>
Subject: reanimation
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 15:04:24 -0000

With regards to this cryonet message

>>>
Another consideration is that in the future, cryonics organizations will 
probably not be making the full decisions about how patients will be 
resuscitated/reanimated. Doesn't it seem likely that courts will step in and 
make the determination? Judges acting on the wisdom of the society, perhaps 
using court-appointed guardians for the patients. If the cryonics 
organizations possess written statements, those might be taken into 
consideration, but they may not be decisive. The key decider will be how 
society (through its legal system) will have come to think about 
resuscitation from cryonic suspension.
<<<

This is a thought worth considering (even if only to provide an argument to 
disregard it):

Knowing how much the legal profession charges for such work at present, (eg 
with mentally impaired people) they are not going to be interested in doing 
this unless the reanimated person comes with a large reanimation trust they 
(ie bankers, lawyers, courts of protection and tax authorities) can plunder 
for payment.  If you don't have faith in the profession to do the right 
thing, then maybe this is an argument not to try and send wealth to the 
future.

-- 
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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