X-Message-Number: 5875
Newsgroups: uk.legal,sci.cryonics,sci.life-extension
From:  (Brad Templeton)
Subject: Re: Virtue of suffering
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 1996 20:21:32 GMT
Message-ID: <>
References: <4h6emn$> <>

In article <>,
John Sharman  <> wrote:
>> And your reasoning is? 
>
>Because by the time (if ever) it were to become a possibility, such
>revival would be contrary to the interests of most if not all of the
>persons then living or at least perceived as such and in the meantime
>the cold stiffies would not have the vote. And someone will have
>appropriated the maintenance fund.

Ah, this is a concern of many people in the cryonics field.  Many view this,
as one of the leading unanswered questions.  However, there has been
much debate on the issue and consideration of it.   Several plans have
popped up...

a) One, of course is to die rich, and hope your heirs will stay loyal.  It's
a hope, and certainly will not work for some people, but will work for
others.

b) Alternately, set up a trust that will be bound to stay loyal in some nation
on earth that allows such trusts, and hope that nation continues its laws,
or that your trust moves if it sees a problem.

c) Form a cryonics pact.  If revival is possible we know that some people
will be revived just for experimental reaons, probably a few hundred at
least.  (In fact all of today's signups may well be revived, there are
only about 500.).  In such a pact you swear to revive your partners and they
swear to revive you.   You hope they keep their word -- they are more likely
to at least, than future generations, that much is true.

Of course if it actually becomes *illegal* to revive somebody that would
stop all this, but that seems unlikely.  Revival would not be possible in
a world of scarce resources.  In fact, since before revival, cryopreservation
and nano-revival will have to become a common medical technique for use on
people injured or sick too far from medical care, the public might even
come to think of the frozen as patients, not stiffies.

d) DO what you can to make sure your cryo-org is stable and dedicated to
your revival.  It is common that every staffer at a cryonics org is
a member, planning to be in the tanks some day, and that helps.
-- 
Brad Templeton, publisher, ClariNet Communications Corp.	 
The net's #1 E-Newspaper (1,200,000 paid sbscrbrs.)  http://www.clari.net/brad/


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