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2009.12.10martine4@gmail.com1 Application of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to Persons Revived from Biostasis Martine Rothblatt 5th Colloquium on the Law of Futuristic Persons
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2009.12.10martine4@gmail.com2 Why UDHR Applies to Biostased Persons Article 2: “Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.”
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2009.12.10martine4@gmail.com3 Biostasis Is An “Other Status”
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2009.12.10martine4@gmail.com4 People In Biostasis Are Part of “Everyone”
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2009.12.10martine4@gmail.com5 Is This What the UDHR Drafters Were Thinking?
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2009.12.10martine4@gmail.com6 Just Like US Constitution Has No “Right to Privacy” STOP Now It’s One Of Our Most Important Rights
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2009.12.10martine4@gmail.com7 When In Doubt, Check Out the Intent 1948
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2009.12.10martine4@gmail.com8 Article 1: Human Is Someone “Endowed With Reason & Conscience” Not Within Scope Intent Well Within Scope of Intent! YES!
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2009.12.10martine4@gmail.com9 If Intended, Why Don’t Cryonauts & Cybernauts Have Rights Now? “…shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance…” PREAMBLE:
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2009.12.10martine4@gmail.com10 Human Rights for Cryonauts & Cybernauts Will Flow From
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2009.12.10martine4@gmail.com11 So, the UDHR Does Apply to Biostased Persons Biostased Persons Are Immanent Within the Intent of the Document Today Few People Are Persuaded That the Biostased Can Be Revived Hence Few People Believe There Is a Potential for “Reason & Conscience” Once This is Shown, the Full Panoply of Human Rights Will Progressively Follow
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2009.12.10martine4@gmail.com12 Pinnacle of Human Juridico- Moral Achievement
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2009.12.10martine4@gmail.com13 Pinnacle of Human Techno- Moral Achievement
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