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 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=1758