X-Message-Number: 296 From att!CompuServe.COM!73337.2723 Sat Apr 13 02:06:42 EDT 1991 Date: 13 Apr 91 01:08:09 EDT From: Brian Wowk <> To: <> Subject: Reply to Alan Batie Message-Id: <"910413050808 73337.2723 DHJ23-1"@CompuServe.COM> To: >INTERNET: There are at least three powerful reasons why suspension patients will be revived by "people of the future". First and foremost: They are ALREADY being cared for by an organization that is dedicated to their revival. This is why I put "people of the future" in quotes. The "people of the future" are here today. Suspension patients are not just being thrown into the future, and into unknown hands. They are being carried into the future by an organization with the self-perpetuating cross-generational purpose of reviving the patients it care for. Second: Medicine of the 22nd century will be very familiar with treating "severe, long-term, whole body frostbite" (space suit failures in the outer solar system, etc.) Cryonic suspension patients will be no worse off than many of the contemporary patients it treats. Third: This point is related to the second. Suspension patients would be revived by any decent, life-valuing society that could reasonably afford to do so. This is the "anthropic" argument for revival. If the future is not one in which human life is held in high esteem, neither suspension patients nor civilization itself will survive. As to whether "death is a good thing for the species"; you can bet this piece of nonsense won't get much mileage in a culture where disease and aging have been eliminated by nanotechnology. --- Brian Wowk Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=296