Re: State orders Cryonics Institute to stop freezing bodies

From: Brett Paatsch (bpaatsch@bigpond.net.au)
Date: Thu Aug 28 2003 - 09:21:04 MDT

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    randy <cryofan@mylinuxisp.com> writes:

    >
    > On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 12:02:37 +0200, you wrote
    >
    > >Hmm, is it just my swedishness, or are the tone of these
    > > letters a bit aggressive? Also, pointing out that cryonicists
    > > are technologically sophisticated and using the Galileo card
    > > sounds downright cultish.
    > ......
    > >I wonder if one could get some of Richard Florida's ideas
    > > about how the creative class moves in here.
    >
    > I agree.
    > Maybe it is because I am an Alcor member, not a CI
    > member. Maybe I would be more strident if I felt more
    > directly threatened.

    A good point.

    Maybe what is missing in transhumanist circles at present
    is an appreciation that "hanging separately" may be the
    consequence of not "hanging together". Of not stepping
    forward soon enough and of not fighting on the logical
    memetic fault lines.

    There are some transhumanists whom I do not think will
    survive if cryonics is not an option for them. Better options,
    for some, almost certainly will not arrive in time.

    I don't know that cryonics will work, but I think it is a
    smarter choice than burial or cremation and I can see
    no legitimate grounds on which people should be denied
    the freedom to avail themselves of that choice.

    Robert Ettinger more than any other person that I am
    aware of is responsible for working to make cryonics
    a practical option.

    *If* the Cryonics Institute or Robert Ettinger need support
    to whether a political storm I think it would be a mistake
    for any prospective cryonaut to regard either as an
    acceptable loss.

    Brett Paatsch



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