[ExI] Cryonics

[Lee Corbin]

Tom Nowell writes

---by the way, Tom gave *no* attribution whose remarks
he was replying to. Not only is it bad form, but I rather
resent being quoted without credit.---

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Nowell" <nebathenemi at yahoo.co.uk>
To: <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 3:27 AM
Subject: [ExI] Cryonics (wa re:arthur c clarke dies)

> [Lee Corbin wrote]
> 
> > I actually had a friend who, in essence actually gave
> > a version of that
> > last answer. He said that he had three reasons for
> > not signing up.
> >
> >       (1)  It might not work.
> >       (2)  Future people might not bring him back
> >       (3)  He might not like living there in the
> > future if they did.

I have to add, for anyone who missed it, that those very
three reasons can be *advanced* for signing up---
namely, it might work, future people might bring us back,
and we might like very much living in the future.

Anyway, Tom goes on about a rather delightful story:

> I was at the NextroBritannia meeting at the weekend
> (missed most of the actual meeting except for Ander's
> presentation, but the discussion afterwards was
> great).
> We actually discussed cryonics a little, and it turned
> out one of the people there was a clinical
> perfusionist who's job is keeping people's brains
> supplied with enough oxygen while their hearts are
> stopped for surgical reasons. It turns out you can be
> kept alive without your own heart beating for a long
> time (this doesn't happen often, but people have
> survived long periods while waiting for transplant). 
> 
> During this discussion, I mentioned the comic book
> "Transmetropolitan"....

Lee