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From: honig@ICS.UCI.EDU ("David A. Honig")
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Subject: Re: Whole-Body Frostbite:  Can It Be Cured?
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Date: 31 May 89 17:42:28 GMT
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In article <8905310354.AA19574@athos.rutgers.edu> mmm@cup.portal.COM (Mark Robert Thorson) writes:
>
>Now, I can just hear the cryo-advocates saying, "If you aren't frozen,
>you're for sure dead, but if you're frozen at least you've got a chance!"
>Oh really?  What about the rights of the living?  What impact will it have
>on society to allow billions of dollars of personal wealth to be tied up in
>the estates of people who expect to come back?  Worse yet, what if these
>people DO come back, but in damaged form?  Can you imagine what it would be

*flame on*

Uh, excuse me, but the living have exactly the same rights as the
person making their will ---and the person making the will can decide to
do with their wealth as they please.  Regardless of the consequences for
others.  No one has an obligation to act in a manner that others (ie,
Mark Thorson) think appropriate.  And if "society" makes laws prohibiting
people from keeping their wealth bound up, that society is not worth
continuing ---for it ignores the rights of individuals, which are primary.  

*flame off*

And anyway, the cryogenic tombs will be employing people, buying things
(like LN2), etc.  Not that this matters to whether people have the
*right* to do as they please.

Cheers,
	David Honig