X-Message-Number: 23379 Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 07:38:19 -0500 From: Thomas Donaldson <> Subject: For Paul Wakfer & others interested Again, for Paul Wakfer: I will be very brief here in my reply. For cryonics the important thing is that we get suspended when for any reason nothing helpful can be done for us at that time. Why define life or death at all? Why is such a definition important? The important thing is that a patient is suspended rather than declared "dead" and then cremated, buried, or thrown into the ocean. Of course I mean these questions for Paul Wakfer, but I put them on Cryonet because they may interest others than Paul on Cryonet. To put the question another way: the important question facing us is that of whether to suspend someone or not. Right now they must have been "declared dead" by the proper authorities for us to do that at all, but that's (looking longterm) a temporary condition. SO, forgetting our current problems, what condition of a person justifies their suspension? Best wishes and long long life to all, Thomas Donaldson Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=23379