X-Message-Number: 881 From: tolman% (Kenneth Tolman) Subject: Re: Macroscopic damage and recovery Date: Sat, 6 Jun 92 16:57:01 MDT It seems likely that certain types of macroscopic damage are reparable, especially if most of the fragments are retained. However, it seems that wrongdoers against cryonics members could deliberately cause damage to prevent restoration, such as through an explosion. Perhaps at some point laws will be passed which will have different penalties for semi-termination murder (death) and total termination (obliteration of organism altogether) This is an extremely unfortunate situation. Namely, some (probably many) hopeful cryonic suspendees in the future will lose the ability to come back because of external events. As I said before, macroscopic damage will probably not be the cause of this- but obliteration will. I am not sure what can be done about this. For the person who believes that once obliterated they are gone forever (like me) it puts one in an awkward position. Can one justify taking risks with the possibility of obliteration? There are not a lot, but some come to mind: taking off in rockets, travelling over oceans in any vessel/plane, working near explosives, being a policeman. Clearly everyone cannot avoid these activities. Should a cryonic supporter not join the NRA? Do guns raise an increased possibility of obliteration? Should all cryonic members go to one place where certain activities don't exist? (no guns, no explosives, fast emergency response) Tom T [ I hope we don't start a pro-gun vs. anti-gun flame war here. Both Libernet and the Extropians mailing list have covered this subject in detail already. - KQB ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=881