X-Message-Number: 29459
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:59:11 -0400
From: Francois <>
Subject: Re: The End of a 1,400-Year-Old Business

>This looks like an extreme outlier as far as business longevity goes, but 
>it
>suggests that a cryonics organization could keep the difficult-to-treat
>patients in suspension for centuries under unusual sets of circumstances:


This is very interesting. There are, and have been, many organizations that 
have lasted for long periods of time. This is an example of a business that 
has done so. These organizations have existed in many different domains of 
human endeavors, religious, political, financial, etc,. It could be very 
usefull to do a thorough study of a representative sample of such 
organizations, to try and identify the features that allowed them to endure 
for long periods of time (at least a few centuries) and to apply these 
features, as much as is practical, to the current cryonics institutions.

Francois 

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