X-Message-Number: 22961 From: Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 15:25:48 EST Subject: Is a ship the solution? I have no news about the CI legal situation, I assume there is nothing new... My question is: Is it possible to sign up with CI now? can someone signed up can be cryopreserved at CI these days? (I means a new patient.) As I understand this is not the case or could be so on a short notice. A legal battle can endure for years with an unknown issue. A solution would be to build or buy another facility in another state. Simple to say, less to finance, particularly if new contracts are forbidden. I think the idea of a cryonics facility on a ship has been "floated" a number of times. I understand that solution would be more costly than a ground one, but if there is a small supply ship, the cryonics ship could nearly never come to the harbor, it would be free of national or state law. I think that rough sea is less noxious today that rough law. May be a contract with the ship service could be coupled with the buying of a time share part in a flat near some harbor. In this way, real estate loans would be used to pay for fully paid in advance cryonics contract. May be CI has a sufficient member basis for using this possibility. If ten percent of the present day members was interested in that solution, I think it could be worked out... Well, living in France where cryonics is at level zero and the law forbid it, that solution seems the only one workable for a large part of Europe. So, a potential US solution would be too *the* European one... Yvan Bozzonetti. Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=22961