Bills and reciepts may be more easily frozen than digitized.
(no login) Posted Jul 9, 2001 10:10 PM
Consider what it would take to store bills and receipts electronically. If a client wanted store years worth of these, digitizing them would be a huge chore-- and very expensive.
On top of that, digital records are not neccessarily permanent. There are all kinds of problems associated with CD's and disks in this regard.
Wouldn't it be easier to simply bundle the reciepts together, tightly, put them in a dewer and pour LN2 in? I think it would. The paper itself IS definitely partly organic. There's no doubt in my mind (is there in yours?) that you'd be slowing the rate of decay of the paper at LN2 temperatures, and therefore the information written on it.
I think this needs further consideration-- freezing a person's paper records. If a client came to you and wanted his paper records frozen, wouldn't you do it? You said you'd leave it up to the client-- so I'd assume that if you were asked to do it, you would. Am I wrong? Why limit the information pertaining to the identity of a person to their bodily remains? Why not include-- seriously-- organic-based paper records in the dewer?