X-Message-Number: 6153
Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 17:46:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: Methuselah <>
Subject: Re: Timothy Leary Renounces Cryonics

On Mon, 6 May 1996, Charles Platt wrote (to Arel):

> Frankly, Mike and I were very
> disappointed.  We had hoped that your visit might open up the possibility
> of getting 24-hour nursing care and installing monitoring equipment that
> would have enabled early warning of TL's death. This would have
> facilitated a proper cryonics standby where we would have had an excellent
> chance of acting swiftly. Mike and I concluded that this was not going to
> be possible, which was one reason why we pulled the standby equipment out
> of the house.

Huh?  Please clarify.  Is it in CryoCare's contract with the individual
(or in BPI's contract with CryoCare?), that the individual *must* allow
nursing care and monitoring equipment in the house, at the behest of the
servicing cryopreservation firm?  I suppose I personally would appreciate
this were I in Mr. Leary's condition; however, I believe I would highly
resent being *required* to have personnel and equipment in my home that I
have not specifically and personally authorized.

Moreover, I believe that when I choose to commit 5 or 6 figures of payment
to a cryonics firm to provide me specific services, that I should have
some choice in the matter of exactly what services would be provided, by
whom, at what time, and, within some reasonable framework, by what
methods.

Guy Gipson


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