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- From: pmetzger@snark.shearson.com (Perry E. Metzger)
- Subject: Re: Cryonics, etc
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.212207.16284@shearson.com>
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- References: <1992Nov15.202437.13829@hellgate.utah.edu> <722035009snx@eris.demon.co.uk> <1992Nov18.172315.4561@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:22:07 GMT
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- wk5w@brain.med.virginia.edu (William Katz) writes:
- >Beyond the technical issues though, what makes people think that the people
- >of the future will *want* to spend the energy and resources to revive some
- >relic from the past (unless they are your descendents)?
-
- Well, I've signed a contract with Alcor and they are getting paid a
- lot of money to do whatever they reasonably can to revive me should
- the technology ever be developed. I don't depend on anyone's good
- will.
-
- Now, arguably, Alcor may go bankrupt or shirk its obligations, but the
- whole thing is hardly a sure thing to begin with. The point is just
- that given no other choice, that is, given that I'm legally dead, I'd
- rather have a small chance of surviving than none at all, which is
- what feeding me to the worms would imply.
-
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- Perry Metzger pmetzger@shearson.com
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