X-Message-Number: 4895
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 23:03:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug Skrecky <>
Subject: cryonics verus mummification

     The attitude of many cryobiologists to cryonicists is one of
 incredulity and disdain. The competing idea of mummification has likewise
 been mercilessly slammed in turn by some cryonicists. Let us admit that
 all of these negative attitudes have their basis in fact. However ideas
 do not exist in a vaccuum. Frozen storage and mummification have as their
 competition only rotting or burning. Little hope of ressurrection starts
 to look good when contrasted with no hope at all. 
     In turn the competition between the cryonics and mummification ideas
 involves the difference between short and long term planning. Where
 cryonics is weak in its long-term preservation prospects, mummification
 is very strong. The main worry of cryonics is financial concerns. In
 contrast mummification teamed with (say) a heavily armored titanium time
 capsule, buried in the permafrost has no financial or other concerns. 
 Cryonics may turn-out to be a short-term fad. Mummification may outlast
 our very civilization itself. If an advanced nanotechnology suitable for
 reviving corpses is ever developed mummification, unlike cryonics can be
 guarenteed to preserve your body till that time. On that basis I claim
 that there can be no doubt at all that mummification is a vastly superior
 concept in comparison to cryonics. 


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