X-Message-Number: 9086 Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 09:36:07 -0500 From: "John P. Pietrzak" <> Subject: Re: 21CM (#9069) References: <> John de Rivaz wrote: > The creation of a reanimation organisation is yet another rival to > 21CM. So far as I can see, many the funding sources that were available to Prometheus are, by and large, unavailable to 21CM. And, as a private company, it should have little in common with a public society, inasmuch as they don't duplicate each other's work. > More importantly, Mr Pietrzak's contribution misses the point of > cryopreservation. > > [...] If we wait until revival is possible, then the number of people > who could benefit from cryopreservation would be much smaller than > now. Also those who are dying now will not be helped at all. The question is, however, are those being helped by cryopreservation today actually being helped? Without a bit more knowledge of what damage it causes, and how important that damage is, we can't answer that question. It may be the case that some information is being permanently destroyed; if true, no future science can remedy that. John Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=9086