<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 1:26 AM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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</div>Last week we heard a talk about cryonics by Ralph Merkle. Under communism<br>
having that procedure is out of the question. The proles would argue that<br>
their immediate needs far outrank my desire to be cryopreserved.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>Mmhhh. Really? In fact, the Party in its wisdom might even decide that, in the event that current therapies of a given pathology, or social assistance required by its disabling symptoms, are too expensive, cryo suspension of the individuals affected be rendered mandatory. :-)<br>
<br>Suspension may well be societally cheaper than the alternatives.<br><br>Stefano Vaj<br>