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From: David Stodolsky <>
Subject: Re: Embryo cryonics
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 11:58:27 +0200

On 6 Aug 2006, at 13:39, John de Rivaz wrote:


>
> It would also place the authorities in a dilemma. If their  
> regulation would
> effectively bankrupt the cryonics organisations, then as the  
> patients are
> live people they would come under state medical care. I would  
> imagine that
> what would happen is that people in authority would act according  
> to the
> regulations without thought for the consequences, and the state  
> would then
> be left to pick up the now inflated costs for keeping the patients  
> preserved
> and also for reanimating them.  What would **not** happen is that the
> patients would be thawed, except as part of the reanimation process.

Unwarranted optimism giving current trends in the USA, where recent  
changes in drug funding are systematically killing the poor. Not too  
mention the Federal Government's opposition to certain state's  
importing cheaper drugs from Canada.

The AIDS pandemic continues to spin out of control, because of high  
drug prices among other things. This in part due to US pressure on  
poorer countries to conform to WTO regulations, even when they are  
entitled to opt out. The current system clearly preserves profits  
more than lives.


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