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Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 06:28:34 EST
Subject: I agree on cremation, Mr. Smith

Alex Berg wrote:
<< > > Most cryonicists would agree that cremation destroys identity
 > >permanently for all practical purposes.---My citation of Chris Rasch
 George Smith wrote in Message #12849:
 >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). >>

George Smith wrote in Message #12867:
>Cryonics can work.  No one has PROVEN otherwise.  Those are the FACTS.
>Can we at least agree on this?

Mr. Smith, I wholeheartedly agree that cremation is proven and cheaper 
option, and as I said, it works as well or better than current cryonics. As 
an added benefit, it works equally well with whole body as with neuro, thus 
avoiding esthetically unappealing choice. 
And there's possibly even cheaper option. In "Engines of Creation" Dr. 
Drexler, if I recall it correctly, suggested formaldehyde fixation of the 
brain. Nanotech will take care of resuscitation (his opinion). That can be 
done free of charge if one donates his brain to a medical college.

Forgive me, I'm outloading from the further discussion on the subject due to 
lack of time.

Alex Berg

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