X-Message-Number: 6577 From: Nick Deller <> Newsgroups: alt.hypnosis,sci.cryonics Subject: Re: suspension questions & grief Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 14:31:07 +0100 Message-ID: <> References: <> <4srbav$> Thank you, Jim, both for the compliment and the tip. I've just downloaded a week's worth of sci.cryonics - no sign of the FAQ yet, but a lot to ponder. I'm afraid I was most struck by the nature of the Prometheus project. For those in alt.hypnosis who don't wish to subscribe to the group, a brief summary is that a chap is looking for pledges to total $1000000 per year for ten years to fund research into reversible brain cryopreservation. My understanding of this is that as of yet, we do NOT have the technology to perform a successful preservation, let alone producing cures at the other end. And funding the research to achieve that end is going to be a mighty task. For myself, I saw nothing to alter my conviction that I have my three score and ten years to do whatever I need to and then finito. I intend to keep a keen ear open for future developments, but at this time I don't believe I'm being offered a viable proposition - just a request for money to search for a pot of gold. All the same, if something more convincing comes up in the coming years, I remain open to it. As for the question of protecting the people of the future from grief, I suggest the truth. Their loved ones died because they didn't believe it was possible to live. Nick "Dr. Jim Stevenson" <> wrote, roughly speaking, give or take the odd snip here and there... >All excellent questions. The best and most forward looking minds of our time >have devoted many many tens of thousands of hours to making their best >well thought out predictions. > >I strongly recommend the faq on sci.cryonics. > >I must add one more question, that I believe should be added to this faq. >If it becomes possible to revive suspended patients, for which there is >a very good, but not yet demonstrated case; How will our loved ones who are >revived, and our children and grandchildren, who lived to never need suspension, >cope with the never ending grief, from the knowledge that their loved ones >chose unnecessary death, when they could have shared >"billions and billions" of millinea with us? -- For as long as you continue to try, you CANNOT fail; for the defining moment of failure comes only when you cease to try. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=6577