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From: Gerald Monroe <>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 06:13:50 -0500
Subject: Re: CryoNet #32697 - #32699

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" I will not debate his statements; rather, will simply offer my own.  Mine
are pretty simple. Anyone's choice of the disposition of her/his body should
be respected and honored, whether it be cryosuspension, cremation, burial,
or about anything else one might imagine.  People should have rights, and
those rights should be extended to the desire for suicide or not, as well as
the desire for what happens to their bodies after death is declared. "

This point of view assumes that all viewpoints are equally valid.  That is,
if a person happens to believe in a particular outcome on death, then that
person should be allowed to seek that outcome. In addition, your viewpoint
comes from a world where it is not really possible to reprogram a person or
to fix negative, suicidal desires 100% of the time.  If we're right about
cryonics though, and about the laws of physics in the universe, then both of
these ideas are actually wrong.  If death is really the permanent loss of
several thousand terrabytes of personality and memory information, with no
plausible reason to assume an afterlife, then death is to be prevented by
any means possible, and the information loss on death minimized as much as
possible.  Period, regardless of beliefs or "rights".  (a permanently dead
person cannot ask for their rights to be respected nor will notice if they
are violated) Also, from a practical point a view, if reanimation technology
can restore the brain from the atoms on up, tweaks could be made to a person
to remove irrational desires to commit suicide.

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