X-Message-Number: 18290
From: "John de Rivaz" <>
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Subject: Re: CryoNet #18280 - #18288
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 15:48:25 -0000

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Toby Christensen" <>
> Subject: Cryonics for the disabled
>
> Hello everyone. It is my belief that cryonics presents an opportunity for
disabled people like myself to be helped via future medical technologies and
that this is an area that needs more focus.
>
> What do all of you think?
>

It is an another emotive subject - many people in the big world outside of
cryonics would say that promoting cryopreservation as a solution to the
problem of disability is at best raising false hopes. Those who already earn
salaries from administering the charity business may go further to suggest
that cryonicists are trying to wrest money from the desperate and gullible
under false pretences. From out perspective this is outrageous I know, but
that is what would happen.

However cryonicists can and will take genuinely interested disabled people
into their community, as can be seen by the James Swayse fund,
http://www.cryonics.org/whatsnew.html#swayze , on a case by case individual
basis. They have to come to find the cryonics movement themselves, though.

But focussing on "disabled people" as a group to try and get them to put
their savings (or their friends and relations to put their savings) into
cryonics arrangements is, in my own opinion anyway, not a good idea. This is
despite the fact that simple unemotional logic suggests that it is an ideal
solution.

--
Sincerely, John de Rivaz:      http://www.deRivaz.com
my homepage links to Longevity Report, Fractal Report, music, Inventors'
report, an autobio and various other projects:
http://www.geocities.com/longevityrpt
http://www.autopsychoice.com - http://www.cryonics-europe.org -
http://www.porthtowan.com

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