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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 11:58:35 EST
Subject: Grimes note

Grimes assures us that, if we answer his current list of questions exactly, 
he will desist, writing:

> it is very simple to stop me from posting here again. Either answer the 
questions, or admit that you will NEVER answer these questions, from anyone.

First, I don't believe him. 

Second, he still doesn't understand that he sets only his own agenda, not 
ours. We have lots of other choices besides the ones he mentions.

Third, although hostile comments are slightly disagreeable on an emotional 
level, it probably helps us if he continues to post the same stuff over and 
over, since then we can reasonably do the same thing, with very little 
effort. Autopilot. We can match him post for post--or many to one, if we 
choose--and let the chips fall where they may. A small tempest in a small 
teapot.

Incidentally, his own semi-automated system has broken down. He again 
mentioned Fred Chamberlain's allusion to an alleged CI patient who spent 3 
weeks in water ice. Aside from the fact that such information, if it existed, 
could not have been ethically obtained by anyone outside of CI or the family, 
I had already explicitly answered Fred--there was no such case. The closest 
thing to it was a case where a local funeral director kept a patient for 
roughly that period in dry ice, while the family dealt with the decision and 
finances and paperwork.

Robert Ettinger
Cryonics Institute
Immortalist Society
http://www.cryonics.org

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