From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Tue Apr 06 1999 - 21:00:24 MDT
joe dees wrote:
> I believe that unsuccessful suicides should get the death penalty.
Joe thanks for sharing my sense of humor on a serious subject. {8^D
> On a more serious note, my father is massively emphysemic, and on constant oxygen,
Sorry to hear of your parents having such problems. {8-(
Emphysema is a special case I have always wondered about. Looks
to me like if left to run its course, the contents of one's brain is
erased in the last weeks of so-called life by lack of oxygen. A cryonicist
would seek what may be defined as assisted suicide by the state
(cryonic suspension) before one suffered a total cranial degaussing.
Now, perhaps some cryonicist can help me out on a topic that
has come up before on this list, but I feel I can now add a new
twist. Suppose I go in for cryonics, and 100 yrs goes by. Now
my living descendants are actually demotivated to reanimate me.
They have no emotional connection, they never knew me. I must
figure out some way to make it profitable for those who would
be burdened with my care, should I be reanimated without the
essential job skills of the mid 22nd century. I still have not figured
out how to squirrel away wealth in some fashion that my descendants
(should I ever have any) would not rather try to inherit, after
causing my accidental unsuccessful thawing. Ideas? spike
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