X-Message-Number: 8371 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 10:29:38 -0400 (EDT) From: "Henry R. Hirsch" <> Subject: Probability of Successful Revival Like Marty Nemko (Message #8369), I am a non-signer with a cryonics organization and for some of the same reasons. Like Marty, I am concerned about the probability of remaining frozen for hundreds of years, the probabiltiy of war or natural disaster, and the probability that my cryonics provider will remain in business. Human institutions are fragile. Very few which exist today were here 100 years ago. For these reasons, I believe that we immortalists should be seeking passive suspension techniques, such as freeze-drying, rather than active methods that require maintenance of the storage environment, such as cryonic suspension. By way of perspective, I should add that I have been an immortalist since I was five years old and an advocate of cryonics since I read Bob Ettinger's book in the 1960's. Now, at age 64, I may have to gamble on liquid nitrogen storage, but I would feel much better if passive storage methods were available. Hank Hirsch --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Henry R. Hirsch Department of Physiology Phone: (606)323-5438 MS508 Chandler Medical Center Fax: (606)323-1070 University of Kentucky E-Mail: Lexington, KY 40536-0084 USA Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=8371