X-Message-Number: 1197 Date: 18 Sep 92 01:58:23 EDT From: Brian Wowk <> Subject: CRYONICS: Terminal sign up Regarding the sentence in my recent message: > If anything, we need to more actively *discourage* terminal patients > from joining. I withdraw the word "more", and instead would like to just emphasize the continued importance of ensuring legal safety, informed consent, and adequate finances when signing up terminal patients. For the foreseeable future Alcor will benefit most by recruiting healthy members, not dying ones. Under no circumstances should we consider the kind of ambulance chasing advocated in the message mine replied to. Perhaps someday money can safely be made this way, but not now. By the way, one form of discouragement I initially had in mind was higher minimums for terminal cases. (Someone, Keith I think, has already suggested this.) It occurred to me, though, that such a policy would be very difficult to implement in practice because of the ambiguity in distinguishing between ill, seriously ill, and terminal patients. By way of example, my own mother was not considered "terminal" until 12 hours before she was suspended. --- Brian Wowk Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=1197