[ExI] Cryonics is getting weird

Stefano Vaj stefano.vaj at gmail.com
Fri May 21 23:22:14 UTC 2010


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

Why, motives of a given party when entering into a contract are not
necessarily relevant as to the parties  rights or obligations under
the same contract.

> Sure, but there is at least the possibility.  A year after dead with no
> preservation there is none whatsoever.

It is not for the court to say when the possibility stops, unless this
requirement is clearly indicated in the contract. The assessment of
the chances for resuscitation is speculative anyway, and even the
concept of "resuscitation", as discussed elsewhere, is not too
precise.

-- 
Stefano Vaj




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