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From: "Gary Tripp" <>
Subject: Re: Secret to a Long Life
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 14:52:15 -0500

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Mike Perry writes:

>It may be that the secret to a long life is knowing when it's time to go
>into cryopreservation.

>I think that is one of the most important points of this arena - the 
>question is: how do we do it legally?  

I think this will be very bad council until we have established that 
prevailing cryonic suspension methods afford the degree of confidence 
required by such a voluntary act of deanimation. I personally think that 
this is dangerous ground and that it might prove to be a most prolific source
of trouble. Nothing short of a proof of reversible suspension  would 
suffice in my book. I do not think that we should be encouraging this line
of thinking; rather, we should make every effort dissuade people from
contemplating such acts. The best bet for survival is to hew to a healthy
life style in the hope that one may live long enough to benefit from 
developments in genetic engineering, organ transplants, stem cell research,
nanotechnology OR the perfection of cryonic suspension technology. 
Given the exponential character of such developments and its current
pace, it really makes sense to cling to life as long as we possibly can in
the hope that a new day will bring us closer to the promised land of  
extended life span. I suspect that well within this century mankind
will eventually find immortality in a post biological form enabled by
nanotechnology.

/gary


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