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

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