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


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