X-Message-Number: 435 From att!compuserve.com!73647.1215 Wed Sep 11 02:12:58 EDT 1991 From: Thomas Donaldson <> Subject: Re: cryonics #419 - Cryonics and Politics (Re: Write ... Watson!) As with most people, we try to balance convenience (read labor cost, time, trouble, etc) with safety. That is why Alcor is presently a publicly visible organization, with publicly visible storage location. HOWEVER the idea is certainly not to blithely go on without paying attention to the current political, social, legal milieu. If it becomes necessary to scatter and run for the hills, neuropreservation gives us a good way to cconceal storage and move the patients about. And especially to smuggle them away to a country where the laws and people are more reasonable. I have no problems with people who want to hide their own lives. The problem with cryonics, of course, is that hiding it raises lots more and different issues}i than would hiding an individual. For instance, just how are we going to get recruits? So far, cryonicists have not taken to replenishing their numbers by the usual sexual processes (though many do not abstain ...). As for protection against political trends, my own impulse, especially as someone who has spent a substantial part of his adult life outside the United States, would be simply to go away to a more friendly clime. And of course, to do that, we have to be closely aware of adverse political/social/legal trends: keep a close watch. Thomas Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=435