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Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:09:24 EST
Subject: Response to Jack Zinn's cryonics protocols

Hello, Fellow Cryoneters,
 
This is Rudi Hoffman writing from Florida.  This posting is about the  

cryonic suspension of long term cryonics activist Jack Zinn.  If you are  
serious 
about your cryonic arrangements, I encourage you to read Ben's report on  this 
suspension at this link:


http://www.cryonics.org/reports/CI91.html

I am tremendously impressed with Ben Best and his detail oriented and  
thorough reporting on this very important and public case.  
 
What remains astounding to me is how difficult it is for even a highly  
educated, articulate, credible, reasonably wealthy cryonics activist to have  

optimal deanimation conditions in the current state of medicine and society  
today. 
 
 
Reading the report, it occurs to me that even I have much of the overly  
sanguine, "well, it will all work out well at the right time" attitude that I  

find is endemic to even fully signed and funded cryonicists.  Smart people  who
ought to know better.  But we all have a tendency to think we are  slightly 
above the norm, that  logistics and people problems may not apply  to us.  
 
Reading this report may dissuade you of a bit of this snobbery.
 
Given concerns against legal liability, medical "ethics" review boards and  
groups who may find cryonics unnacceptable, possible transmittable diseases 

that  make patient handling problematic, logistics problems that are difficult 
if 
not  intractible...the list goes on... and the question we should all be 
asking  ourselves is 

"HOW THE HECK CAN I GET A CRYOSUSPENSION UNDER OPTIMAL  CONDITIONS?"
 
Do any of the rest of you find it is shocking and embarrassing to find that  
you/we/I occasionally fall into the same mental traps and lazy, inprecise  
thinking we may denounce in others?
 
Reading the somewhat lengthy but highly detailed report of the suspension  

process of Jack Zinn that Ben Best has provided, I realize that I need to do a
better job of preparing my friends and family...most specifically my wife and  
sister...to handle issues that may come up during a suspension.
 
And, it brings a new sense of urgency to what Dave Pizer and the Venturists  
(sounds like a rock band?) and some other forward thinking people are trying 
to  do about a community of cryonicists.
 
And, if I may be permitted one last, and arguably commercial, relevant  
point, it makes sense to overfund...ideally dramatically overfund...your  

suspension.  I have 2.3 million dollars of life insurance on me.  And,  
regretfully, it 
is not because I am wealthy.  It is because I place a high  value on both 

taking care of my wife and taking care of my life, and this amount  of coverage
will do this. 
 
May I close with a quote from Ben Best regarding the funding for Jack  Zinn's 
suspension protocols?  Ben Best and a host of others obviously have  expended 
tremendous...no...call it EPIC efforts on behalf of the hoped for  future of 
Jack Zinn.  And they were able to do so, in part, because of wise  overfunding 
of life insurance which Jack had put in place for his  suspension.  
 
Quote from Ben Best follows:
 
The patient was overfunded by insurance policies above the minimum  

cryopreservation fee, so I felt that I had some leeway to incur extra expenses.
(The 
patient had not been paying his premiums recently, but there was enough  cash 
value in the policies that the premiums were covered.) I cannot say that I  
could have made these efforts on behalf of CI Members who fund at the bare  

minimum. I may not even have been able to change funeral directors, because the
Inman funeral director would have been much less expensive. CI Members are  

advised to fund above the minimum for this and other reasons (such as protection
against future uncertainties, and access to future services which may be  
available at extra cost).  
Yours for Centuries, 
Rudi

Rudi Richard Hoffman CFP CLU  ChFC

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