X-Message-Number: 32524
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:16:39 -0700
From: Gary Kline <>
Subject: misc points.

Fellow Cryonicists,

Among the benefits of living where I do on the "Left Coast" is
the recent legalization of the Death With Dignity law.  Anyone
who has <= 6 months to live can take his life with some drug.

What I would like to know is how to co-ordinate my death
(assuming that I were a candidate for such an exit) with the
Cryonics Institute.  Is there some paperwork that I could sign
that would have the deanimation team present as I drank my death 
and avoided months of extreme suffering?   As far as I know, I am
not dying of any lethal disease.  ---Oh, and allow me to insert
my own thoughts here.   I am fairly sure that many more 
states in the US will pass the kinds of voluntary suicide laws
that we have here in Washington State.  Enabling the individual
to take control of his death makes sense, as I see it, rather
than having the government or religious institutions maintain
that control.--

Taking falls are frequent among the elderly who are frail.  While
my own mother was still living independently in the desert she
took any number of tumbles --and was able to get up on her own
each time.  She wound up living with my sister for the remaining
years of her life and died at some unknown hour under hospice
care in a critical-care institution.  She herself waved off my 
ideas of having her suspended;  if she has been closely monitored
and flat-lined, what would the procedure have been then?  [This
was in Ohio, 2003.]

There are two other points worth mentioning in passing, both that
I heard on Public BRoadcasting in recent months.  The first was from 
a wizard mathematician who said that, altho he does plan to be
suspended, his guesstimate is only around 2% that he will
successfully be reanimated.  A story that I caught much more
recently skeptically pointed out that given the vast changes that
can occur in mere days, the odds of having a valid interested in
cryonics in 200 years are absurd.  (The implicit point was: the
idea is nuts; so much bull-feathers.)  The two-percent guess seems 
a bit low ... that is probably due to my having been just a science 
and math geek for so long.  I would be interested in others' thoughts. 
Nonetheless, I am still interested in being suspended when I have
breathed my last!  And, dollars-and-cents: best case, with a
state-sanctioned suicide at hour NN:MM, could || would someone be
here to prep me?


cheers, everyone,

gary kline



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