X-Message-Number: 3746 From: Subject: Re: In and out with Dave Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 14:55:29 -0800 (PST) In response to Mike Darwin's #3739: You ignored my main point which was that we should be considering cryonics patients to be *alive* so that when we discuss them the standard that ought to apply becomes obvious to us! I realize that it is routine for doctors to chart a given patient's psychological illness and their family history, but they don't usually follow that up by publicly releasing that information on the net and using it to make comparisons to their *own* lives. I realize that cryonics is not yet a part of the mainstream, but as long as we are going to consider patients to be alive (at least in an informational sense), then we should extend the same courtesy to them that a doctor would extend to a functioning patient!! And if it becomes absolutely necessary for us to discuss a patient's personal problems in a public write-up, then it should be done professionally, and without all the comparisons and personal conjecture. Notice that Michael Riskin's posts on this subject were very informative, but did not make reference to patients he has treated let alone to his own psychology. Although, as I tried to indicate yesterday, patients' personal problems are seldom relevant to their published case histories. Ever forward, David -- Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=3746