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Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 11:38:07 EST
Subject: Re: CryoNet #10882 - #10887

In response to message 10886

I do believe in a soul.  We can remove all your extremties, even replace many
of your organs and you will still be you.  You are not your body.  I happen to
believe the the soul leaves the body when it dies and inhibits a new one or
reincarnation.  Which, if true, would mean that when the suspended body is
revived, it would have a new soul.

I personally want nothing greater than to be able to live in the future, so
cryonics is a very inticing idea for me.  But consider this;  Suppose cryonics
works and it suspends your soul and it is also true that reincarnation is
real.  What possibilities does that open up?

Can we really trust that our last wishes before being frozen will be honored?
Did we honor the last wishes of Tutankhamen before violating his tomb?  He had
his own agenda for immortality that we ignored.  How many years have to pass
before our wishes really do not matter anymore?  We respect the departed for
about 200 years, but after that they are an archaeological find, a window to
the past, a display or an experiment.  How will our wishes be viewed in 500
years?

How would it be if our brain and soul were reanimated as an experiment and you
ended up spending the rest of enternity in a jar?  Is it really that far-
fetched?

Now it you believe in reincarnation, you will see the future anyway, in a new
body, possibly one that has been genetically engineered to perfection.  I am
still struggling with the issue of cryonics, do I trust is science or do I
trust in God?

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