X-Message-Number: 15859 Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 06:53:32 -0500 From: Thomas Donaldson <> Subject: CryoNet #15851 - #15858 Hi everyone! Interesting that so many people replied. More may reply later. David King clearly raised an important point for cryonics. One common feature, I believe, in all the replies is that the people of the future will be quite interested in reviving us. Naturally this depends a lot on how many there may be. I personally would rather trust cryonics societies rather than society in general ... unless some society ended up converted to cryonics. As to how long revival may take, I do not think we can answer such a question with a single number. People have been suspended in many different conditions, with such a wide range that I find it hard to believe that at any time within a few hundred years we can ALL expect to be revived. Think of those frozen after autopsy, or people like Jerry Leaf, and compare them with patients frozen under the very best conditions. Not only that, but there HAS been some advance in how we've been best frozen, so that someone frozen by the best methods of 1999 will very likely be revived sooner than someone frozen early on. And sure, someday, perhaps a few centuries from now, we'll know how to revive anyone frozen at the turn of the 20th and 21st Centuries. But then as I said in my message, cryonics may last for a long long time, and some of those frozen in the middle of the 21st Century may take some time because their condition is not one of those that even existed in the 20th Century. Best wishes and long long life to all, Thomas Donaldson Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=15859