X-Message-Number: 26263
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 08:31:31 -0400
From: Robin Helweg-Larsen <>
Subject: Reanimation instructions

This posting is about the issue of what instructions are left, or should 
be left, for eventual reanimation.  The topic has been covered before, 
but I suggest it should be revisited periodically because our own 
present-day concepts about it are probably evolving all the time.

1) My instructions request no experimental reanimation, but only when it 
is a routine matter.  I will not feel any sense of urgency.

2) My preferred physiological age will be 25, give or take 3 years.

3) As a neuro suspension, I will have options on initial body 
structure.  I prefer to be a turn-of-the-millennium normal male human as 
I am now.  I see no reason to request to change my skin color or the 
shape of my nose at this point, though I would like built-in options for 
a variety of mental and physical enhancements if I should feel like them 
in 3 months or 3 years.  I would like to re-start fresh in the Brave New 
World, and see it through my existing perception and memory, but I know 
that I will likely want to make radical adjustments fairly soon after.

4) If, for whatever reason, the choice is between 'do it on reanimation' 
or you're out of luck, then I would want enhanced memory and processing 
power.  I would *not* want automatic mental or physical links or 
connections of any kind to any other person, no matter how standard they 
have become.

5) I do not want my sleep patterns altered, even if then-current medical 
thinking is that some periods of sleep are unnecessary.  I do not want 
my DNA altered, even if then-current medical thinking is that some of it 
is "junk DNA", until I have had time to study the matter myself.  I do 
not want to be more than 1 inch taller than I am now, even if people in 
general continue to become taller.  I do not want to be more than 1 inch 
shorter than I am now, even if people in general have moved to become 
shorter.  I do not wish to be muscled differently, other than to make 
sure my ankles are not as damaged as I have made them in my present 
life.  I prefer flexibility and stamina over strength.

6) I do not want to be reanimated into a situation in which I am forced 
into any legal commitments or obligations before I have had a full 
opportunity to understand the workings of society.

That will do for a start.  How do other CryoNet readers see the issue?

Robin HL

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