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Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 08:49:56 EST
Subject: Cremation is cheaper than cryonics

In a message Message #12849 George Smith" <> write:

<< > > Most cryonicists would agree that cremation destroys identity
 > >permanently for all practical purposes.---My citation of Chris Rasch
 
 >Can THEY prove it?  Even this we don't know for certain.  What if memory is
 >not stored in physcial systems as we know it, but, as Rupert Sheldrake has
 >speculated, in a trans-spacial morphogenic field (see his A NEW SCIENCE OF
 >LIFE, the only book Nature magazine suggested should be burned). >>

If memory isn't stored in physical systems as we know it, why not choose 
cremation? Cheaper option, indeed. And much simpler. And, actually, why prove 
anything if one can simply believe in anything?

Alex Berg

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