[ExI] Cryonics is getting weird

spike spike66 at att.net
Mon May 17 21:04:38 UTC 2010


 
Please may I propose that we suspend for two days the usual limit on posts,
so long as they are on this topic.  Reasoning: a bunch of us here are signed
upwardly.  Cryonic suspension is a highly relevant discussion to many,
something in which many of us have a huge investment, or will soon, and so I
ask Natasha and Max to pardon what I expect to be a wildly interesting and
verbose exchange that will likely go way beyond five posts a day for some.  

Keep it relevant, as I am going way out on a limb to propose a temporary
(today and tomorrow) open season on the topic Cryonics is getting weird.

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	...On Behalf Of Tim Halterman
	Subject: Re: [ExI] Cryonics is getting weird
	


	
>	...I believe Alcor made the right decision in exhuming and
preserving the individual even if the optimal time to do so had passed.  The
simple fact of the matter is we do not know what technology we will haves
access to in the future for the process of reanimation.  I can be confident
in the fact that having the physical remains no matter that state would make
whatever process easier...	I would have preferred Quad 4 and then Quad
3...


Ja, quad 3 is likely the very best for cryonics PR, but the worst for Alcor,
running up expenses without being paid, oy.


	 
	In response to Spikes decision matrix 
	Quad 1) refund, no dig
	Quad 2) no refund, no dig
	Quad 3) refund, dig
	Quad 4) no refund, dig.
	 
	>I would have preferred Quad 4 and then Quad 3.   Legality of money
issues aside...

Ja, unfortunately legality and especially money issues are never aside.  If
we do anything to endanger Alcor's financial future, we endanger everyone in
that dewar.


>...as an individual I entered into a good faith contract with Alcor and
would expect them to live up to their end of the bargain no matter the end
financial consequences...

But one of those possible consequences is bankruptcy followed by melting.  I
am with you on the option 4.  As a possible expansion of the question, go
ahead and offer all four quadrants in order from the best to the worst, and
why.


 > ...While I realize the general public may feel yuck about it as a
potential customer I feel Alcor made the best decision. -Tim

Ja, thanks Tim, the proles don't like cryonics.  Well, I do, but the rest of
the proles do not.  Even the title of this thread suggests it, Cryonics is
getting weird.  If you asked my family members they would all say "No pal,
cryonics is already weird.  Now it is getting appalling."  

I am one whose family is almost entirely composed of Jesusoids.  They will
want to use my decaying corpse as a centerpiece at my funeral, a ceremony
which I don't even want.  That will be one hell of a task to get around that
problem.

spike







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