Re: State orders Cryonics Institute to stop freezing bodies

From: natashavita@earthlink.net
Date: Wed Aug 27 2003 - 17:33:53 MDT

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    From: Jeff Davis

    >A Note to Director Hollister

    >http://www.cis.state.mi.us/insidecis/director/note_to_mayor.htm

    I just edited it a little, as you suggested anyone do. Thanks for giving
    us this template.

    Natasha

    Dear Mr. Hollister,

    I am a cryonicist. I need to be assured that their services are available
    to me when the time comes. Your interference with their operations is
    uncalled for, represents ignorance of or indifference to the scientific
    basis and the life-saving intent of the practice, violates the fundamental
    right of each individual to self-defense and to the right to choose one's
    own medical care, and violates both the freedom of religion and the
    separation of church and state.

    The vast majority of individuals who are signed-up with cryonics
    organizations are among the most technically and culturally sophisticated
    people in the world. They see the possibilities the future holds, in stark
    contrast to the rest of the population of the "civilized" world, who are
    almost completely ignorant of even the basics of present day science and
    technology.

    This is the same science and technology which, since the time of Galileo,
    has struggled to promote truth and rationality against the forces of
    mysticism and prejudice. The same science and technology and truth and
    rationality has given us the very civilization we today celebrate and
    enjoy: unprecedented levels of material abundance, comfort, safety,
    freedom, and, to enjoy it, a healthy lifespan two and a half times greater
    than the brief and brutish span of the jungle from which science has
    lifted us. Everything we are, everything we have built proclaims that
    science and rationality delivers, mysticism and prejudice destroys.

    The same vast majority of people who consider cryonics to be a sham, due so
    not on the basis of scientific training, but rather on the basis of cultural
    prejudices, superstition (which they call religion), and a slavish
    adherence convention. Fine for them. This is our protected right, founded
    on this country's tradition of freedom of religion.

    Signee

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