X-Message-Number: 9087 Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 09:52:08 -0500 From: "John P. Pietrzak" <> Subject: Re: CryoNet #9076 References: <> Thomas Donaldson wrote: > (Imagine that cryonics grows to be at least as big as life insurance > in the next century, and the methods for suspending people at that > time have been perfected so that they are reversible. This will > affect both the desire and the ability of many to do research towards > reviving earlier patients). Ah, but that is rather backwards, no? The real need for research is to advance suspended animation to the point where the methods have been perfected so that they are reversible. Only then, IMHO, can it grow to the size of life insurance. (And at that point, I won't care nearly as much about how much further research is directed towards it.) John Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=9087