X-Message-Number: 8397
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 08:26:10 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug Skrecky <>
Subject: improving cryonics

In Message #8392 Saul Kent <> wrote:
>       As far as I'm concerned, if the odds of cryonics working are good
>*or* bad, my only concern is to work as hard as I can to make the odds
>better.
>---Saul Kent
>
Like Henry Hirsch I believe the most cost effective way to increase the
odds of cryonics actually working is to upgrade it to freeze-drying. I
doubt that further improvements in cryonic procedures will make much
difference in the probability of revival. This would merely improve the
degree of recovery of memories from frozen brain tissue. Currently
many believe cryonics has a chance to work if the time-till-revival
(TOR) is not much than 100 years. If this estimated TOR is more on the 
order of a 1000 years, as I suspect it is, then current attention to
improving cryonic procedures is largely a waste of time. Only
freeze-drying has more than a small chance for success with TORs on the
order of a millenium or so. 

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