X-Message-Number: 1758
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1993 11:39:28 -0500
From: Ken Stone <>
Subject: CRYONICS - HIV+ members

David Stodolsky:
>> One population of persons who have this knowledge, and in most cases
>> adequate time to make the preparations for suspension, are those with
>> HIV infection....
>> ....

Brian Wowk:
> ...
> For a variety of legal, public relations, and logistics reasons we 
> should not target marketing toward dying people-- especially HIV positive 
> people for whom suspensions are especially difficult and hazardous. 
> ... 

Well, yes and no.  HIV suspensions are only particularly difficult and
hazardous *for people who aren't already infected with HIV*.  Given a 
reasonable marketing effort within the HIV+ community, I predict that one 
could find a vast amount of medical experience which could be invaluable 
to cryonics-- along with a community of motivated people who haven't had 
60+ years to get too accustomed to the idea of aging and dying.  In many 
cases, HIV+ people may remain healthy and active for several years after
they have been diagnosed.  Why exclude them?

I've always wondered why doctors who were diagnosed as HIV+ ever felt 
compelled to retire from practice when there are so many HIV+ patients
to treat.  So long as HIV+ suspendees could be matched with HIV+ suspension
teams to eliminate the risks (both ways) to the non-infected members, we'd
want to recruit all of the HIV+ people that we possibly could; they represent
resources for us, not just liabilities.

---Ken Stone

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