X-Message-Number: 20323 Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 10:55:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Scott Badger <> Subject: Re: How I seem to feel > From: Thomas Donaldson <> > These comments are for Scott Badger, who seems to > feel it will someday become obsolete. I very much > DO NOT AGREE. I really don't know how you got that from what I said, but you're misrepresenting my position in the statement above. I originally responded to someone who was wondering what would happen if cryonics worked before the aging problem was solved. I proposed that coroners might then revise the criteria for legal death and decline to issue death certificates until the person was truly "irretrievable" which would mean that the life insurance policies currently used to fund cryonics would have to be replaced by health/medical insurance policies of some kind. Iggy recommended that I not worry about not being able to use some kind of insurance to fund cryonics in the future in a recent post. To Iggy: I didn't mean to imply that I'm at all worried about that. To Thomas: I personally suspect that cryonics, as a medical procedure, will be useful in some way as long as we're in organic form, and I don't recall saying anything to the contrary. ===== Scott Badger, Ph.D. Member: ALCOR, Extropy Insitute, Life Extension Foundation Instructor/Researcher-University of Idaho Just released: "PHENOM"- my Transhumanist CD (www.mp3.com/scottbadger) __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=20323