X-Message-Number: 3380 Date: Wed, 02 Nov 94 21:34:17 From: Steve Bridge <> Subject: CRYONICS on Indian Lands To CryoNet >From Steve Bridge, Alcor November 2, 1994 [Would someone please forward this to sci.cryonics for me while Kevin is off-line and his auto-system isn't working?] In reply to Message: #3376 - Premortem suspension From: (GJones007) Newsgroups: sci.cryonics Date: 2 Nov 1994 00:23:01 -0500 Message-ID: <3977nl$> >Is there any truth to the rumor that a cryonics organization is >contemplating relocating onto Indian land so as to permit the execution >of a premortem suspension -- the idea being that some of the regulatory >obstacles [such as the charge of Murder One] might thus be evaded? Such a rumor seems unlikely to be true, although it wouldn't surprise me to discover that different cryonicists had inquired into the idea. During Thomas Donaldson's attempt in 1990 to get legal permission for pre- mortem suspension (he was denied), people were suggesting everything from this to the Netherlands to taking a ship into international waters. All had problems, but I don't remember what the one with Native American reservations was. My impression is that the legal separation is not complete, and that homicide is considered a bit more of a problem than, say, gambling. Whoever tries it had better have plenty of reserve for legal bills. And they had better be prepared to be very friendly to a Native American tribe -- which may not WANT its land flooded with suicidal Caucasians and turned into "Kevorkian World," even if some of the suiciders were doing it to save their lives. Plans like this are invariably more complicated than might appear at first glance. NOTHING about cryonics is easy. Steve Bridge, President Alcor Life Extension Foundation Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=3380