X-Message-Number: 3219
Subject: CRYONICS: failing organizations and thawing patients
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 1994 09:56:18 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <>


> From: 
> Message-Subject: CRYONICS Re: more Taylor
> Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 22:53:41 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> :
> 
> snip snip...
> 
> > On other questions: Only one cryonics organization has ever failed and lost
> > patients, quite a few years back, and that one bore no resemblance to the
> > present ones. 
> 
> Just a minor point, but actually two cryonics organizations have gone under 
> and lost patients.

No, if you count "losing patients" as "patients thawing in spite of
the fact that there were contractual obligations to keep them in LN2",
only one has defaulted on its obligations, specifically Nelson's
organization. If you count being forced, by default of the entity
paying for ongoing care or legal reasons being invoked to remove a
patient from storage, ALL current cryonics organizations (other than
perhaps CI) have been in that position. The only other cryonics
organization other than Nelson's to fail only lost patients because
their funding arrangements ended and not because of negligence on the
part of the organization.

Perry

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