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Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 22:04:29 -0500
Subject: SCI. CRYONICS guarantees

We remind readers and members of what to say when asked if cryonics carries
any guarantees. Sometimes our people  say that nothing is guaranteed; but in
fact, we offer at least three guarantees:

1. We guarantee that your chances are better if you are cryo-suspended than
if you are buried or cremated.

2. We guarantee our best efforts to rescue you (and ourselves).

3. We guarantee that anyone restored from your frozen remains will be--at
worst--more like you than a clone or twin would be. This is because your
genome will be available (since countless cells will survive, at worst) and
also because a great deal will be known about your history and personality
(from your archives, at a minimum). (More likely, even in adverse cases, at
least some of your individuality should be capable of interpretation from the
remaining structure of your brain, so that the restored individual will be
MUCH more like you than a twin would be. At best, of course, you will be
fully restored to life as yourself--then onward and upward.)  

Robert Ettinger
Cryonics Institute
Immortalist Society


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