<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:purple;
text-decoration:underline;}
span.EmailStyle17
{mso-style-type:personal-compose;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:windowtext;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";}
@page WordSection1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
--></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Greetings Extropians,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have a post in the moderators box from a non-subscriber which has puzzled me, so I will open it for discussion and an invitation for advise your humble servant the list moderator.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Short version: an aged mother was a cryonics enthusiast but had not funding for it. She perished in December, so the survivors talked the funeral home into chemo-preserving the brain, whatever that means. Formaldehyde? The poster (a friend the son of the deceased) is passing the hat to collect funding to have the brain cryo-preserved.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Question please: do we want that kind of material being posted to ExI? <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Note: there is nothing inherently offensive or against our posting guidelines. It is entirely a matter of taste and what kind of content we choose to have on ExI-chat. When I say we, I don’t mean the royal “we” as in “me” but rather I mean all of us, you included. Assuming you are of noble birth of course.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have a suggestion if we decide to allow those posts: in order to decrease the risk of scams, we should set up an escrow account controlled by the cryo-preservation organization but not by the family of the deceased. Then if they fail to raise sufficient funds, the money goes back to the donors, or into a pool for such cases if the donors are willing (sort of a macabre version of the worthy-student fund, but rather than giving the worthy a college scholarship, you hurl their remains into a vat of liquid nitrogen.) Reasoning: if they get a couple thousand bucks and decide it is a no-go, I don’t see having the family of the deceased collect that cash.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>What do we do now, coach?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>