From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Sun Apr 18 1999 - 22:57:43 MDT
O'Regan, Emlyn writes:
> > > as I am about the corpsicle option.
>
> I'm not talking about technical details of cryonics, that's whatever it
> is, and that's great.
That's a pity. The current product is unfortunately not that good that one can
buy it unseen. Thus informed choices are always better.
> Waking up is the problem. Under what circumstance would you be woken?
> What motivations would lead a society to bring you back? What will
> governments do with your corpsicle in the meantime?
I thought _dying_ was the main problem. Which circumstances? Any. If I
don't like, I can always commit suicide. What motivations? I don't
care, as long as I am reanimated. (If I'm not reanimated, I don't
really care either: I'm a really cool customer, since sitting in a
dewar). Goverments? I hope they won't have much say in the issue.
Point is, the odds are incalculable. I might as well live. If I'm
dead, I'm dead. That's an irreversible decision.
> I would really recommend reading "A world out of time" as a start (by
> LN), if you are considering cryonics. Just as a scary bedtime story, or
> because you like good SF, if nothing else.
Scary? So what. I can think of a billion scary scenarios. Who says
they'll come true?
> But if you want to know the technical details of implementing cryonics,
> then try somebody else.
Thanks, I'm doing just that.
> Emlyn
'gene
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