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Services
Half-life privacy
A conversation with a relative in half-life is the most private conversation many families will ever have. The firm makes sure it is heard only by the person it was meant for.
The difficulty
People in half-life are kept close together, in cold-pac rooms that hold many at once. A consultation draws on the half-life that remains to the person consulted, and when that person’s signal is weak, other signals nearby can come through: a neighbour’s voice on the line, a stranger’s memories, someone talkative who should not be there.
The Turing Registry investigated such a complaint at a licensed consultation room in 2019 and traced the voice to an adjacent cold-pac (TR-01992). No breach was found, and none had occurred. That is precisely the problem: nothing in the licence prevents it.
The service
- Room screening. Before a consultation, a technician surveys the consultation room and the cold-pacs adjacent to your relative’s with the FM-7, and tells you whether any other signal is strong enough to intrude.
- Placement advice. If one is, we advise the moratorium, with your permission, on moving your relative further from it.
- Attendance. On request, a Class III inertial sits in during the consultation, at the far side of the room. They do not listen and are not able to.
- Rationing advice. Each consultation shortens the half-life that remains. We help families decide which questions matter most.
Where
The service is offered at moratoriums in Europe through the firm’s Zürich office, and principally at the Beloved Brethren Moratorium, with whose proprietor the firm has worked since 2008.
What we do not do
We do not speak with your relative on your behalf, record a consultation, or keep any note of what is said. We do not offer conversational replicas of the dead and do not refer families to anyone who does.
Arrangements
Screenings are arranged by Matthias Brunner, Resident Director in Zürich. Families may write to zurich@runciterassociates.org, or telephone the New York office, which will put them through.