Last night read up on Marce Johnson. After reading Mike Darwin's open letter requesting help for Marce, I shut down my computer, sat there in deep thought for several hours.
Marce Johnson poses a deep moral dilemma for me. Marce Johnson is a life long member of the cryonics community; she clearly is one of the pioneers of the movement. She through no fault of her own lost her funding simply because she fell I'll and her health gobbled up her resources. There is currently a fund raising effort going on to help save her. If we start a fundraiser for me, that will compete for dollars that might otherwise go to Marce. I think it goes without saying that Marce is far more deserving of the cryonics community dollars than I am.
What happens if for instance Marce has let's say 25,000 in her fund and there is 10,000 in a fund for me. Total dollars would be enough to save Marce, but split up, Marce wouldn't make it. I do want to get cryonically suspended if I can't beat this cancer, but I'm not jazzed about doing it at the cost of potentially snuffing out Marce's life. I'm making it known that any dollars raised for my suspension should be made available to Marce should she pass before I do.
I have a better way to deal with this situation. I have a chemo treatment today in Scarborough, I will post later tonight.
I hope you beat the cancer and can secure your own funds for cryopreservation. You deserve to be helped too. Shannon mentioned chemo-preservation, so i'm guessing the other ways of preserving a body like chemical fixation will not be as desirable as vitrification, though they may be a lot cheapter than vitrifying a body.
So say marce got enough raised, but you only have $10,000 , is there no intermediate method of storage for you? I'm not talking about putting you in a big freezer without the proper vitrication steps, b/c you deserve fighting chances at immortality, but no other way to use whatever money raised? no other way to let you be suspended in a temporary storage place until more funds can be raised to properly prepare your body?
I wish you the best. btw, how bad is the cancer? keep us updated of your progress
Edited by HYP86, 20 July 2008 - 01:41 AM.