X-Message-Number: 5477
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 95 12:36:59
From: John de Rivaz <>
Subject: SUBJECT: Accreditation

I have been reading the posts on accreditation and legal issues.

For cryonics to work we need substantial advances in technology. 

Cryonics was around before the computer industry had provided useful 
computers at an affordable cost. In the early days of cryonics you may 
have been able to get small computers that could be used in a limited 
way by electronics enthusiasts such as myself, or as games machines if 
you were satisfied with "tele tennis". Or you could buy large expensive 
machines to fulfil ordinary office functions. In the 1960s, you could 
get a word processor. It would fill an air conditioned room and require 
professional operators!

None of the cryonics societies even considered buying 
computers until machines were available *at an affordable cost* that 
could meet their needs of word processing, publishing, record 
keeping and process control.

As well as advances in technology, cryonics needs advances in the law - 
both in application of it at an affordable cost, and also in its 
attitude to the individual, in particular with with regards to 
treatment of the individual's own body. This will come by 
political acton where appropriate, and, as with computers, 
with patience. There are just too many people (outside of 
cryonics) dissatisfied with the law for the present professional-
cartel/political axis system to continue.

When accrediation and regulation are attainable *at an 
affordable cost* they will indeed be useful additions to the 
credibility of the concept of cryonic suspension. But at the moment 
they are in the state of the word processor that requires professional 
operators in an air conditioned room. Let other industries meet the 
development costs, let us have the rewards when the costs and 
useability are more reasonable.


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