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
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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.


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