X-Message-Number: 4064
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 00:34:06 -0500 (EST)
From: Charles Platt <>
Subject: Re: CryoNet #4049 - #4056

I appreciate Trygve Bauge taking the time to write such a lengthy reply to
my short letter, but I have two problems: first, I think he may be too
naive to see what I mean by the word "naive," and second, his post is so
long, I don't have the strength to read it all. Sorry!

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David Cosenza charmingly (as always) asks one of his little hypothetical
questions: How would the Cryonics Institute be situated if a transport
team employed by CryoCare killed one of our patients before the person was
frozen and moved to CI? 

It's too bad we don't have Geraldo Rivera asking probing questions about
homicidal maniacs in cryonics organizations. But I guess we can make do
with you, David. You may not be quite as ethically principaled as Geraldo,
but your innuendo is so much more vicious, it never fails to titillate. 

In this case, though, I don't think you have taken your questions far
enough. For instance, what would be CI's legal liabilities if a CryoCare
service provider ran amuck and machine-gunned a lobby guard who tried to
prevent a cryonics patient from being removed from a hospital in a timely
fashion? What would happen if one of our people decided to paint the
patient red, white, and blue before delivery to CI, against the wishes of
relatives? What would happen if someone working for a CryoCare service
provider decided that human intelligence resides in the big toe, and as a
result, only this part of the person was perfused and frozen? Clearly,
David, there are many serious possibilities which should be examined in
endless detail, and you have barely scratched the surface. 

--Charles Platt

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