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- From: tsf@CS.CMU.EDU (Timothy Freeman)
- Subject: Re: Long term accountability
- In-Reply-To: tolman%asylum.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu's message of 20 Nov 92 12:34:42 MST
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 16:39:30 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.123442.20603@hellgate.utah.edu> tolman%asylum.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Kenneth Tolman) writes:
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- As has been brought up elsewhere, how can we insure the responsibility
- and accountability of cryonics organizations? How can we be assured that
- the administration will do a good/adequate job?
-
- I agree that these are important questions.
-
- 1) A cryonic suspendee would be assigned a living individual who would
- safeguard that person's well being. ...
-
- What incentive does this person have to do a good job? Past schemes
- that have had the kids paying to keep pappa frozen have failed because
- the kids lose interest after a few decades at most. I don't expect
- this to work any better.
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- 2) A suspendee would sign up for a contract which functions as a "share"
- which can be readily transferred from one cryonics organization to another.
- Thus a person wishing to switch organizations can readily AND EASILY do
- so. ... It also would avoid the
- large amount of paperwork and legal bull involved with signing up anew with
- another organization.
-
- But if you standardize the legal aspect, you've removed one of the
- main forms of competition between the organizations. For instance,
- Alcor demands the right to discard the body of a suspendee (while
- retaining the head) if the financial situation gets tough enough,
- whereas the Cryonics Institute insists upon keeping the body around
- because (I think) they feel that head-only suspensions may fail to
- preserve the self-circuit, whatever that may be. I don't see any room
- for these two groups to participate in a shared legal process.
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- Tim Freeman <tsf@cs.cmu.edu> CompuServe ID 71045,2267 checked occasionally.
- When they took the fourth amendment, I was silent because I don't deal drugs.
- When they took the sixth amendment, I kept quiet because I know I'm innocent.
- When they took the second amendment, I said nothing because I don't own a gun.
- Now they've come for the first amendment, and I can't say anything at all.
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