X-Message-Number: 466
From att!compuserve.com!73647.1215 Sat Sep 21 10:05:37 EDT 1991
Date: 21 Sep 91 09:54:21 EDT
From: Thomas Donaldson <>
Subject: Re: cryonics: #460 - #463

>From Thomas
Brian's message summarizes well the issues involved in cryonics reviv-
al. Iatrogenic conditions will probably ALWAYS happen, though with less
and less frequency as time passes.

In terms of time scale, though, I'm more pessimistic than Brian. My 
pessimism does not come from skepticism about technical possibilities
but rather from pessimism about whether the avenues of research necessary
will be pursued as closely as they deserve by anyone other than those who
are ALREADY cryonicists. Just to try it out, have you actually gone out 
and talked to those who are not cryonicists (hiding your own beliefs...).
Lots of people out there think it immoral to even pursue the idea. Many
people studying gerontology specifically do NOT want to aim for immortal-
ity and will tell you so quite specifically. And of course we have the 
Society for Cryobiology, which to me is not so important to us short term
but tells us something about public feeling, even now.

But of course, as Brian points out, we don't have to be revived immediately
and have time to wait ...
Thomas Donaldson

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