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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Will Steinberg via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> [ExI] Giving up autonomy for cryogenic suspension<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>>…One of my personal nightmare scenarios is being frozen, having my body stolen in the hundreds-of-years interim, and waking up imprisoned as some kind of fucked up slave, possibly a sex slave…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have had dreams like this, but I wouldn’t say they were nightmares. I see what you mean however: it would depend on who owned your ass.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>>… Who's to say Alcor doesn't go bankrupt, or suffer a burglary…any security can be broken… Will<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ja, of course that is a risk with Alcor or any future cryonics company. The problem I see is that the company depends on people signing up to cover their current expenses. If the whole notion goes out of style and proles stop signing up, global warming is coming to the Alcor facility.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>