> I think by the time we have self-activating machines of > this capacity the time for cryonics will be past. > After some rather gruesome experiences, descendants have no > control over a person who is in suspension. > We have a saying in the cryonics world, being suspended is > the _second_ worse thing that can happen to you. > The insurance companies would prefer you never collected. > Alcor has about 80 in storage at this time and around 850 > signed up. Some of them are known SF writers. > Keith
I have met some of the Alcor people at conventions, but not recently. http://www.alcor.org/ The Cryonics Institute is cheaper but they don't offer standby: http://www.cryonics.org/ I just watched "Freezer" on the Natl Geo channel. Arthur W. Rowe, PHd in Forensics at NYU medical school says it's a scam (probably a devout Xtian!~). The only link I could find was this article: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/03/0318_050318_cryonics.html I have some letters (from the 30s) found in a Venice, California dumpster, written in Russian... Jon _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
