X-Message-Number: 520
Date: 03 Nov 91 03:48:52 EST
From: Thomas Donaldson <>
Subject: Re: cryonics: #515 - #516

I wasn't asking for any sugar-coated stories. It seems to me that the
stories you discuss are quite simply unrealistic in the extreme. I'm
much more worried by issues such as failure of our funding to continue
to support us, or destruction of facilities by civil disorder perhaps
not even aimed at cryonicists, than by unrealistic scenarios which on
cool consideration show no serious possibility of existing. Think about
it: so Mr. Niven thinks we might turn into banks of body parts? In a
situation in which body parts could be regenerated or grown in farms at
will? Nonsense. He should start first by studying the biology of freezing
and the issues likely to be involved in our actual revival.

I could go on in more detail about all of these other nonsensical tales
but I honestly don't think it worth the bother. IF (and that is the real
problem) we can remain in suspension long enough, then we will meet 
indifference at the very worst. That is, IF we can remain frozen. Science
fiction has fallen down very badly on the issue of cryonics. It is just as
bad as the story of Frankenstein, which may have helped to stop serious 
efforts at finding ways to revive people going on at that time.
				Best
					Thomas Donaldson

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