X-Message-Number: 8081
Date:  Tue, 15 Apr 97 12:43:32 
From: Mike Perry <>
Subject: CRYONICS Re: CryoNet #8069 - #8079

To Scott Painter, aka Mike C., thanks for providing the information. 
I hope you get signed up soon.

To Peter Merel: thanks for your comments and your
web address on the "self-determination" problem. I'll try to
check it out soon.

To Charles Platt: Any speculation about the future will have a 
fictional component, and especially when we are 
contemplating some particularly radical change, such as the 
elimination of biological aging. (And the latter does involve 
ourselves becoming more than human, by any reasonable projection that 
I can imagine.) In any case, I endorse and support 
the call of Kevin Brown, Steve Bridge, Paul Wakfer and numerous 
others for more cryonics research now. You may have 
misunderstood the thrust of my comment about Kevin Brown's posting, 
which was to argue that it would be to our advantage to return to 
life (i.e. an animate state) earlier rather than later, even if "our 
friends of the future" have only  good intentions toward us. We 
do need better cryonics technology now. To imply, as I did, that 
we'd be among those to "shape and govern" the world of the 
future (as should every healthy person then present) also needs
justification--another time.

To Olaf Henny: Thanks for the additional information on the 
problems with governments. Hopefully the march of technological 
progress cannot be stopped in any case. There are just too many 
"cracks in the dike" for the myopic mentalities of antiquated 
institutions to plug, however much they might wish to do so.
But they can slow us down, which could be bad for 
us individually.

Again to Olaf Henny: you say "The notion of immortality is
at this time ridiculous anyhow." I disagree, but I think I understand 
where you're coming from, and I've devoted a lot of space recently 
to airing my point of view, so I'll close for now.

Mike Perry

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