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From: John de Rivaz <>
Newsgroups: sci.cryonics
Subject: Re: Hostile family members?
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 15:16:56 +0100
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This business of dying so that someone else can have an inheritance...

I would be interested to know where the people in favour of this draw the 
line. Those against living indefinitely are taking the view that cryonics is 
very unlikely to work and the risk of possible gain to self is so small 
compared with the certainty of gain to someone else.

But these people would certainly attend a dental surgeon to have a septic 
tooth pulled. They would not think it is their duty to die of septicemia 
because there is a finite chance of dying during the extraction anyway and 
their successors having to meet the dentist's bill.

But what about more serious surgery? Liver transplants, for example. Or how 
about experimental surgery "You are going to die anyway, but I can get you 
on this test program. You *may* be in the placebo group, or you *may* get 
the treatment which *may* work."

Are some of the cryonics naysayers willing to opt out of these situations 
where the chances of spending money remain high but the chances of survival 
are lower?

Whose judgement do the nay-sayers use? Do they accept the judgement of their 
local doctor that cryonics will not work, or do they read pros and cons from 
many people and think they have reached an infomred decision?

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