X-Message-Number: 7197
Date:  Fri, 22 Nov 96 10:25:08 
From: Steve Bridge <>
Subject: Too many patients?

To CryoNet
>From Steve Bridge
November 22, 1996

In reply to:     Message #7188
                 Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 11:55:26 -0500 (EST)
                 From: Kelly Anne Moy <>
                 Subject: number of cryonicists

     Kelly, I don't have enough time to go into this question, since I am 
about to go on a week's vacation.  However, aspects of this question have 
been debated several times on this forum over the years.  If you have Web 
access, I recommend searching the CryoNet back files for discussions on 
revival of suspension patients.  

     I believe that some of your questions are based on false assumptions.  
For instance, if you realize that the last patients preserved will be the
first patients revived, the scenarios of adjustment to the future become
quite different.  Better for the younger of us, perhaps worse for those
patients already in suspension who will be the *last* people out.

A couple of further comments:

>I think it is potentially threatenting to the survival of cryonicists if
>the number of cryonicists increases significantly (exceeding perhaps
>10000).

>We must bear in mind that in the future if technology is ever good enough
>to revive cryonicists, we are posed with the problem of there being too
>many people to revive from suspension.  Regardless of how much wealth a
>future society can create, it worries me that the people in the future may
>want to 'give up' on reviving people.  

     There will not be 10,000 people frozen then some huge hiatus where no 
one notices cryonics.  The same companies doing the freezing will care for 
the patients and revive them -- many of whom will be their friends and 
relatives, not strangers.

     The government will not do this -- we will.  Cryonics is totally a non-
governmental activity today, and I expect it to remain that way, although I 
could see large hospital corporations taking it over some day.

     In any case, I don't think we can or should attempt to control *how 
many people get frozen.*  We are saving lives and we must take those 
opportunities as they come.

     If this discussion is still going on in a week; maybe I will say 
(repeat) more.

Steve

Stephen Bridge, President ()

Alcor Life Extension Foundation
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