X-Message-Number: 31040
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:20:55 -0700
From: Gary Kline <>
Subject: misc questions?

This is a general question, and so addressed to whomever is best able
to answer it.  If I remember correctly, the Cryonics Institute requires
the next-of-kin to sign off and give explicit permission for someone to
be cryo-preserved.  If I die before my daughter reaches legal age, I'm
assuming that my sister is my next-of-kin.  Other than my 7th-grader and
my sister, I have only a few first cousins.  So: what's the deal?

My wife very recently said that she doesn't care what I do with my
remains after I'm dead.  If my speech were not garbled, I would have
thought up a snappy rejoinder--or at least as comic a come-back as I can
think of.  Once I'm dead for some very few minutes, I'll be permanently
dead.  And I would still like a second chance.  If she will sign a 
notarized form saying that I have her permission to be suspensed when I
de-animate, will that suffice?  Or is is still better to have her fill
out the Cryonics Institute's form?

I very much doubt that my daughter would refuse my "last wishes," but
then, anything is possible... .   [Besides, and for the record, a recent
exam shows the possibility of prostate ``problems'' --I won't say cancer,
even though both my father's mother and my father died of cancer when they
*they* were in their 60's.  Now I am--63.]  I would just like to have all i's
and j's dotted, and t's crossed.  

Feedback, please, friends and fellow cryonauts.

gary kline



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