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

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