X-Message-Number: 10327 Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 22:54:42 -0700 From: Hara Ra <> Subject: RE: Message #10308, again Thomas Donaldson: >So far as I know, there is no physician in the Netherlands sympathetic >to cryonicists, nor for that matter any citizen of the Netherlands who >is signed up with any cryonics organization. > Andrea, my partner, is a citizen of the Netherlands and an Alcor member. However, she resides in Santa Cruz CA, just as I do... Andrea replied to my cc to her with this: "When I mentioned cryonics to my mother and brother who are living in the Netherlands, there was such immediate abhorrence. The first and major objection seemed to be over- population. Since the Netherlands have the highest population density of any country in the world (I feel pretty claustrophobic when I go there), that may well be na most obvious explanation why there seems to be no one there who wants to get even close to this topic. Us folks here in the US have such amazing amounts of space (and resources) that possibilities here seem to be limitless, which is actually a prominent part of the American myth. It's not by accident that the whole cryonics idea began and developed in this country. O--------------------------------O | Hara Ra <> | | Box 8334 Santa Cruz, CA 95061 | | | | Death is for animals; | | immortality for gods. | | Technology is the means by | | which we make the transition. | O--------------------------------O Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=10327