X-Message-Number: 7852
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 22:26:57 -0800
From:  (Olaf Henny)
Subject:  What Comes After Revival?

If and when a cryonics patient will be revived, s/he will be 
adult, but bare naked like a newborn baby. S/he will arrive 
in a very strange world, s/he will need time to adjust to 
and will have few or no marketable skills.  One long 
established cryonicist, whom I respect very much wrote in a 
private mail to me something to the effect: "The main thing 
is to get there.  I will worry about everything else then. 
If I have to clean bricks to make a living, so be it."

Frankly, if present trends prevail, as I think they will, 
there will be no unskilled work available and our 
scientific/professional training will be of limited value, 
certainly  in need of comprehensive updating before it will 
enable us to make a valid contribution and thereby earn our 
keep.  It would be an enormous advantage to have at least 
enough money available to fund a university education/ 
update, to give us a leg up in fitting into our new 
surroundings.  There will, no doubt, be initially a great 
deal of interest in those 'people from the past' after their 
reanimation, quite likely leading to sponsorship in 
attaining an education, but that will only be true for the 
first few revived, - likely the last ones frozen.  The rest 
of us will be left to fend for ourselves.

I experienced therefore surprise and disappointment, that 
absolutely no reaction ensued when I posted a letter by Mr. 
Ritter Chief Legal Officer,  Canadian Offshore Financial 
Services, which informed us, that there were indeed 
countries, which allow trusts to be established for 
indefinite duration for 'persons not living',. 

I had expected a discussion on an identification process. 
Will it be feasible to establish the trust for an individual 
with a certain DNA?  Or can we foresee tampering, which 
would allow living beings to be created, without brain, but 
with the correct DNA, which will others to enrich themselves 
or is this absurd?  Are there other means of positive 
identification, that could be used as back up?

I for one would prefer to invest a little foresight and 
planning into establishing the means to acquire the 
knowledge and training, which will enable me to *earn* my 
living.

Olaf Henny

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