[ExI] Cryonics is getting weird

Rafal Smigrodzki rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com
Wed May 19 17:17:03 UTC 2010


2010/5/18 samantha <sjatkins at mac.com>:

> Quadrant four. Exactly what Alcor did. For several reasons.
> First and foremost, it was what the customer wanted and paid me for.
>
> False.  They paid you for a chance at future life.  Not to freeze whatever
> remnant of fresh even if it is utterly hopeless to be any more than a
> symbolic act.

### This is incorrect, Samantha. The contract usually signed with
Alcor (such as mine) doesn't say many specifics about future life but
very specifically describes what is to be done if my brain is
considered to be non-recoverably destroyed. I paid for what the
contract says - hopes of future life are not directly a part of the
contract. If Mr Richardson's contract says he wanted his remains to be
frozen regardless of their condition, then that it what he paid for,
and that is what Alcor should strive to achieve.

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>
> It is not about what is done with "remains" but about the possibility of
> preserving enough fast enough for possible further life.  It is not about
> disposal of truly dead.  It may look like that in current legal terms but
> that was not the intend of the person in signing up and I think we all know
> this.
>
### How do you presume to know Mr Richardson't intent?

Rafal




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