X-Message-Number: 3679 Date: Fri, 13 Jan 1995 14:06:32 -0500 (EST) From: Andro <> Subject: Re: CRYONICS marketing On Tue, 10 Jan 1995, Keith F. Lynch wrote: > > If you want numbers, how about looking for inmates on death row? > > How would this work? In the future, when they are restored to life, > wouldn't the state just execute them again? Besides, probably not one > of them has the money. And life insurance won't pay out if one is > executed. This is a way of warehousing really obnoxious people, at minimal security risk, minimal expense, without killing them; they wouldn't need to be revived until either real rehabilitation was finally available, or it transpired (as it does 1 time in 1000 or so) that he really WAS innocent all along. As for paying for it, find death-sentence inmates with connections to rich gangs--drug trafficking, mafia, whatever. Otherwise get an inmate to elect it as his form of "execution", to be carried out as a scientific experiment by a financially well-endowed university/research lab (surely we must be almost at that point....?) Everyone gains. Alternatively, do it as a charity case for someone who is particularly controversial, or newsworthy, either a Dahmer (one extreme), or a political dissident in a repressive country where our governments would prefer the person to live - the "execution" would presumably have to take place in that country. (I make no claim to my ideas being practicable immediately :-) In the long run, the state could pay for it; it could take away the 10 years of pre-execution appeals, because the inmates wouldn't be executed; it would be humane, cost-effective, hopefully reversible, and scientifically useful. I've always figured that (especially serial) killers owe a debt to society: they would make the best guinea-pigs when we come to the tricky business of reviving people: personally, I would like people to have had a LOT of experience on others before they go trying to revive me..... But hey, always optimistically, Robin Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=3679