X-Message-Number: 28159 From: "Mark Plus" <> Subject: Re: Would Mark's DNA have passed the screen? Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 20:47:52 -0700 "human screener," who apparently knows something about pianists, wrote: >It would be interesting to see how many of the existing cryonicists would have been screened out according to the current DNA test Mark referred us to. Would Mark, himself, have passed the screen, I wonder. Interesting food for thought. Probably not. Though I suspect the overwhelming majority of cryonicists don't make good candidates for viable brain vitirification, either, if only because almost everyone develops cardiovascular disease with age that impedes perfusion of the brain. The ideal cryonaut would have to walk into the cryonics operating theater as a healthy ten-year-old, not one who went into cardiac arrest and then into suspension decades older. Of course, the elder cryonicists have long advocated doing away with biological defects as soon as the technology becomes available, even if the process offends certain people's sensibilities. Manage your risk, not your terror. Mark Plus Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=28159