X-Message-Number: 1551 Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 12:37:43 GMT From: Subject: CRYONICS I am very interested in the concept of cryonic preservation, and have found the discussion of the topic on this mailing list very informative. My particular problem with having this procedure carried out on myself is that I am afraid of waking up in a future `Hell' rather than a technological `Heaven'. If cryonic suspension, followed by advanced medical nanotechnology, will allow the possibility of almost unlimited freedom to experience pleasure, it will also allow the possibility of unlimited suffering. I realise that any cryonics organisation that manages to keep its suspended patients to the point when they can be reanimated probably has their best interests at heart. But it seems to me that the possibility always remains that some nightmare scenario can occur, whereby patients are reanimated but are kept in a situation where they suffer indefinitely, without even the freedom to ask for euthanasia. I personally believe that there is a far greater probability that one would wake up in a `Heaven' rather than a `Hell', but the consequences of the latter might be indefinite suffering. I suppose I must simply be a coward but the nightmare possibliities make me think twice. What do other people think? Are these reasonable points or are they simply the manifestations of a neurotic personality (a fair criticism I think)? Forgive me if these questions have been discussed before but I am new to this mailing list. -- John Eastmond Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=1551