X-Message-Number: 9953 Date: Sun, 28 Jun 98 13:02:03 From: linda <> Subject: Re: CryoNet #9941 The following appeared on the letters page of New Scientist, dated 29 June 1998. Replies may be emailed to Lets see plenty of them! John de Rivaz posted (#9941): John, I sent the New Scientist the following: Q: Why will the people living in the future want to reanimate those of us frozen today? A: This is a problem which worries many people. That is why the questions is so frequently asked. I don't think we need to worry about this issue, though, because I don't think we need to rely on future generations to reanimate those of frozen today. For me personally the central issue of LifePact is the answer to this very question. For those of us who make LifePacts with one another, we are ourselves the very persons who will see that we are reanimated. How could this work? Let's use a very personal example. After I am frozen, and after everyone who ever knew my mother is frozen, who would have the incentive to see that my mother, Arlene Fried, is ever reanimated? Here is the scenario that I envision. Arlene and I have a LifePact that says that each of us will do everything in power to help get the other one frozen, stay safely frozen for as long as need be, and then do everything possible to get each other reanimated. My mother was the first of us to go into suspension. But, I also have LifePacts with many others. Some of those are already suspended, too. Some of those with whom I have made a LifePact will continue to live after I am suspended, and they in turn will have made LifePact agreements with others who will survive them. In fact, progress in the medical and biological sciences is progressing so rapidly that many young people today may never even dies from aging as we know it today. Eventually, if reanimation becomes a reality. Suspended patients will begin to re-enter the world and begin their second life cycles. As this happens, some of those reanimated will have LifePacts with dear friends and loved ones. As these LifePacts are honored, there will be a backward wave of reanimations. Eventually, someone who had a LifePact with someone who had a LifePact with someone who had a LifePact with me (and multiple LifePact agreements helps to improve the likelihood of this) will work to see that I am reanimated as soon as technology allows. Once I have re-entered the world and begun my second life cycle, it will then be my obligation and my honor to help those loved ones with whom I have made LifePact Agreements. My mother is one of those people. Linda Chamberlain CryoTransport Manager Alcor Life Extension Foundation Scottsdale, Arizona, USA Linda Chamberlain () CryoTransport Manager Alcor Life Extension Foundation Non-profit cryonic suspension services since 1972. 7895 E. Acoma Dr., Suite 110, Scottsdale AZ 85260-6916 Phone (602) 922-9013 (800) 367-2228 FAX (602) 922-9027 for general requests http://www.alcor.org Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=9953