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 ************************************************* Ridicule and derision are weapons often employed by those who are intellectually outmatched ************************************************* Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=7852