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From: Gerald Monroe <>
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:14:55 -0500
Subject: Re: CryoNet #32991 - #32996

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> It is therefore particularly dissapointing that none of them seem to have
> taken up the cryonics idea. Of course they could have done with an
> organisation like the Institute for Preservation of Lenin - just for one
> person. It would be no different to having a provate jet or yacht.
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> That didn't turn out so well for Lenin.  Problem 1 is that the soviets
didn't have a freezer to put him in in 1924, and they didn't get one built
before his body started to visibly decay.  They also dissected his brain.
 But the real problem that is applicable today is that while this Institute
has a staff of 15 people, Lenin is so unpopular in the modern age that the
Russian government plans to hold a referendum that will result in burial of
the body.  A billionaire who founds an institute used to preserve other
people as well won't be as easily singled out, even if public opinion turns
against that person 50 years later.  I think the billionaire would be much
safer if they were 1 patient in thousands.  Kind of analogous to how flying
commercial is actually safer than flying on a private jet, despite needing
to share the plane with the rest of us.  (and ironically, in most airplane
crashes with fatalities the passengers most likely to survive are near the
back, in coach class)

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