X-Message-Number: 26791 Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 17:08:04 -0400 From: Robin Helweg-Larsen <> Subject: Re: Predicted Cryonics Institute patients to 2044 References: <> I think David's projection of CI patients is fascinating and very welcome. I'm sure something in the same order of magnitude applies to Alcor too, and I find it very exciting. I can imagine two factors that could radically impact the progression: one would be a change in social acceptability of the idea of cryonics, which, especially if it led to government funding as a standard health care option (perhaps more likely in Denmark or Canada than the US) would skyrocket the numbers. The other is in the opposite direction: as medical science advances, we will hit aging stasis (by 2020?), and then rejuvenation (by 2025?), and the ability to avoid cryonic suspension except in the case of particularly difficult illnesses or traumatic accidents. Perhaps, whenever they finally occur, those two factors will cancel each other out, and leave David's projections intact! Always optimistically, Robin HL Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=26791