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In article <Feb.7.20.31.53.1990.4424@athos.rutgers.edu> well!dduke@lll-crg.llnl.gov (David Allen Duke) writes:
>In regards to discussions about cryonics on this newsgroup:
>
>In a technology advanced enough to literally raise you from the dead 
>(frozen), I think the new limitation imposed on that society would simply 
>be raw material. What will the motivation be for that future society to 
>recover you?  What will you offer?  Should you sign an agreement before 
>you die stating that you will abide by the laws of that future society?

Put yourself in the situation.  You uncover a cryonically-preserved individual.
You have the technology to revive this person.  All you need do is order your
nanomachines to start working, which costs you next to nothing.  Will you
revive this person?  If you would not, would others?  There are many people
in the world who are driven to help others, even animals.  Many do so quite
altruistically:  there's "nothing in it for them" other than psychic 
satisfaction.

There is also an organization called Lifepact, which exists precisely to
address the problem you raise.  Lifepact is a mutual-aid society, whose
members agree to revive and reorient each other.  The idea is that in
exchange for your own revival from cryonic suspension, you agree to provide
the same service for someone else (once you are able).



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