X-Message-Number: 3034 From: (Thomas Donaldson) Subject: CRYONICS: re #3029-3031 Date: Sun, 28 Aug 1994 19:36:42 -0700 (PDT) Hi! Here's my suggestion for a definition: "Cryonics is the medical technology which freezes and stores patients after their legal death in order to make possible their revival by a future and much more advanced medical technology at some unknown future time." I believe that no one will argue that cryonics does NOT make revival possible given that other current techniques make it almost certainly IMpossible. On the other hand, a possible revival is not guaranteed revival. Storage, of course, is an essential part of the procedure. The one point on which I feel unsure about this definition is that it no where suggests just how likely that possibility may be ... but then Paul is right that we cannot give a good figure for that anyway. Best and long long life, Thomas Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=3034