X-Message-Number: 26662
From: "John de Rivaz" <>
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Subject: Re: questions
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 10:39:12 +0100

It is reasonable enough for people to ask about what happens if they get a
heart attack whilst alone etc., but the first thing to do is to sign up. If
you haven't signed up, then it is guaranteed that you won't be
cryopreserved. Of course there are circumstances where it still may not
happen, it will never be totally safe.

But neither is anything else totally safe.

Similarly all these matters of identity, consciousness etc are interesting
and need to be discussed. However we are what we are, even if our nature is
not fully understood.  It probably never will be totally understood.

Cryonics is the best way known at the present time of preserving our
identities -- whatever they are. I doubt whether a repeatable experiment can
be ever devised that proves identity will not survive cryopreservation and
reanimation.

As far as I know one has ever suggested that total anaesthesia destroys
identity. Maybe when anaesthesia was controversial sadistic surgeons could
have used that argument to put people off it. Using such arguments today
to denigrate the concept of anaesthesia would only occur amongst patients in
hospitals for the
criminally insane, I should have thought.

-- 
Sincerely, John de Rivaz:  http://John.deRivaz.com for websites including
Cryonics Europe, Longevity Report, The Venturists, Porthtowan, Alec Harley
Reeves - inventor, Arthur Bowker - potter, de Rivaz genealogy,  Nomad .. and
more

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