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Subject: CRYONICS Re: Quantum Reality
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 1994 14:09:20 -0700 (PDT)

Steve Harris <>:

[...] Given the blasted lunar
> landscape appearance of electron micrographs of even the most
> carefully and quickly perfused and frozen animal brains at the
> present time, I have some doubts that these criteria will be met
> for humans who are preserved even under the best and fastest and
> most expensive standby and transport protocols now used in
> cryonics---let alone in humans allowed to lie around warm for
> hours after death, perfused haphazardly by inexperienced 
> morticians, put on commercial airliners without special hurry,
> and finally flown to some nameless firm's door for freezing at
> their convenience.  

While I agree with Steve that using mortuary technology is inappropriate, I 
dispute that cryonics firms (who *have* names and reputations) do suspensions 
when it is convenient for them to do so. If you know of any organization that 
employs such practices, Steve, I do wish you'd enlighten the rest of us. As 
for delays in commercial flights, and getting a suspension team to the 
patient before he/she has been pronounced, well, these are problems that ALL 
organizations big or small must contend with, it's not something unique unto 
any one organization.

>   
>    Yes, I know that Dr. Ettinger disagrees.  I understand that he
> is actually about to bet his own identity on the matter, by
> arranging to subject his own brain in the not too distant future
> to man~ana-style cryonics in Arizona, before shipment to 
> Michigan.  <sigh>.  

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Personally, I'd prefer to have my brain subjected to "ma¤ana-style" cryonics 
in Arizona as you refer to it, as opposed to a "Kervorkian-style" suspension
in Rancho Cucamonga!! If you want to apply a greater degree of risk to your 
suspension that's your business, but I think those who count on their
organization to get them through to the future would be well-advised to do 
otherwise.

Ever forward,

David

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