X-Message-Number: 7011
Date:  Tue, 01 Oct 96 12:42:07 
From: Steve Bridge <>
Subject: Who will we freeze?

To CryoNet
>From Steve Bridge, Alcor
October 1, 1996

In response to:    Message #6997
                   From:  (Ian Taylor)
                   Subject: Cryonic morality
                   Date: Fri, 27 Sep 96 18:03:00 +0200
> 
> How about a change of topic while we are waiting ...
> 
> Do any of the Cryonic service providers have a policy on _who_ they suspend?
> For example, would they accept a request from Saddam Hussein sweetened with
> a US$10m research donation?

     Just like a doctor in an emergency room who is faced with a gunshot 
victim, we do not judge whether a cryonics patient is a "good person" or 
"worth saving" or even "guilty."  If someone wants this done and can pay for 
it, the moral thing to do is to freeze him and let others provide a 
judgment in the future as to his guilt and punishment, if any.

     HOWEVER....  Alcor also has a rule that we do not have to suspend 
someone in a situation that would endanger the health or survival of Alcor 
staff or already suspended patients.  So we are unlikely (currently) to 
take patients who have died from Ebola virus or Lhasa Fever, for example.  
And we will not take a patient (at least publicly) who is so hated that his 
enemies are likely to drop bombs on our facility or kidnap our staff.  
Saddam would probably be eliminated under that second principle.

Steve Bridge

Stephen Bridge, President ()

Alcor Life Extension Foundation
Non-profit cryonic suspension services since 1972.
7895 E. Acoma Dr., Suite 110, Scottsdale AZ 85260-6916
Phone (602) 922-9013  (800) 367-2228   FAX (602) 922-9027
 for general requests
http://www.alcor.org


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