X-Message-Number: 29213
From: "Chris Manning" <>
Subject: revival instructions
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 13:27:54 +1100

[already posted to CI group]

How will CI (or Alcor) decide when to revive people?

CI apparently has no policy of asking people signing up for
suspension whether they have any revival instructions. (And I gather
Alcor does not have one either.) I mean instructions concerning which
medical advances the person wants to wait for.

Obviously nobody will be revived from cryonic suspension until it
becomes possible to do this. This is one medical advance we *have* to
wait for. Clearly, a cure for whatever disease the person deanimated
from did not exist at the time of their suspension, otherwise they
would not have deanimated from it. If such a cure has been found
during their suspension then they could be revived straight away,
otherwise they would presumably be left in suspension until the cure
is found. Even when the cure exists, there is the issue of
youthfulness/old age/telomeres. The person might want to be revived
as soon as they can be restored to life and health, but with an aged
body, or they may prefer to be left in suspension until a cure for
old age is found.

And we are assuming that a cure will in fact be found. How long might
the wait be? How long is it reasonable to wait before assuming that a
cure isn't going to be found? A suspendee might not want to be kept
in suspension for more than a certain amount of time. They might feel
that they can 'handle' the possibility of being revived in the year
2100 but not the year 2500 or 3000.


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