X-Message-Number: 4667 Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 15:52:19 +0200 (MET DST) From: Eugen Leitl <> Subject: conc. long-term stability of cryonics service providers Dear cryonetters, It is highly encouraging to hear most cryocorps are striving to achieve long term stability, e.g. by using conservative interest figures, etc. However, extremely long storage time spans (many decades to centuries) taken into account one (or many) appearance of economical disruptions (apart from wars, which cannot be predicted nor countered, apart from moving from conflict area) appears not only possible but even highly probable. Very few commercial companies can boast a continuity in decade range, not speaking of those having persisted for a century or two. Cryocorps being but few, low finance and providing a highly controversial service to a small community of eccentrics (that's how the majority sees it), seem to be easy prey even for minor economical disturbances, thus rendering their services quite worthless, as a patient off storage is not a patient anymore but thawed meat. What mechanisms/policies are currently used to counteract this potentially desastrous emergencies? -- Eugene Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=4667