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Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 11:22:15 EDT
Subject: Kline's concern

Gary Kline wrote in part:
 
>One vague concern of mine is that even tho making cryonauts
> "whole" will very probably be doable sometime late this  century,
> what if there is little interest in reviving a  bunch of 
>  mostly old-nerdy-types?  In other words, in  a hundred or two
>  hundred years, we may wind up being a  curiosity.  Since already
> "dead", just dump us...  .

This is a common misunderstanding, as I see it, for several reasons. First  
of all, revival and rehabilitation will not be the direct concerns of society 
or  a vague "they" but of the Cryonics Institute, which will have both a legal 
and  moral obligation, and will in many cases involve friends or relatives.
 
Second, the resuscitees will be retrofitted as needed and made as competent  
as anyone else. It is reasonably clear to me that this capability will be much 
 less demanding than the repair of cryopreserved people.
 
Sometimes people talk about the importance or desirability of preserving  and 
reviving unusual people, the famous or beneficent or brilliant. Nonsense. In  
the kind of future that will allow revival and rejuvenation, everyone will 
have  available the qualities of the best. 
 
R.E.



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