[ExI] New York Times piece on cryonics, featuring Robin Hanson & Peggy

natasha at natasha.cc natasha at natasha.cc
Mon Jul 12 23:23:49 UTC 2010


Quoting Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com>:

> Cryonics does not force anyone to die, nor does forbidding cryonics
> force anyone to die. Cryonics clients are, by definition, *dead*
> already.

Cryonics patients are "suspended, not, by definition, *dead*.  It is  
true that a legal "death certificate" must be made and signed by an  
attending physician, medical examiner or coroner, but according to  
cryonics, the person is suspended.

Best,
Natasha





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