[ExI] Medical power of attorney for cryonicsts

[BillK]

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BillK

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 6:34 PM, Ben <bbenzai at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Rafal Smigrodzki <rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>If anybody has any comments, please do comment here, I intend to finalize
>>the PoA documents soon and advice is welcome: Do you think these
>>instructions are OK? Is there anything you would formulate differently or
>>add?
>
>
> I do have comments.  Did a lawyer take money to draft this for you?
>
> I'd be (pleasantly) surprised if this has anything but the most trivial
> legal force.  My understanding is that if the gubmint want you autopsied,
> and you don't, you get autopsied, end of argument. After the autopsy, your
> ruined brain can probably be handed over for cryonic suspension.  And I
> thought that if your death is even the tiniest bit suspicious, an autopsy is
> pretty much mandatory anyway.
>
> I kind of doubt that government ownership of our bodies is something that
> can be wished away in writing like this, not for a while yet, anyway.
>
> I may be (I hope I am) wrong about all this, but my inner pessimist just had
> to speak up.
>
> Ben Zaiboc
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