X-Message-Number: 15680
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 08:11:34 -0800
From: "Billy H. Seidel" <>
Subject: interesting.

Thanks Bob, for your response to my last post. I agree with the last 
paragraph.  I also believe that the more people that ask "WHY?", the more 
people will eventually come up with the answer that makes the most sense to 
them.  I do not necessarily believe that any company should divulge the 
inner working of their organization.  They are, after all in competition 
with other companies doing the same thing.  Wouldn't it be nice if we could 
say, " Hey look at us, we have 50 people revived successfully from Cryonic 
suspension".  That would prove a lot, wouldn't it?

Oh yes, I originally joined ALCOR around 1982, left for political reasons 
and went to Cryocare.  Last year I rejoined ALCOR because, as you pointed 
out Cryocare can no longer do the job. I went with ALCOR for a lot of 
reason, many of them personal.

As for David Pascal...  WOW what a response.

You wrote.

"Of course it is easy to make fun of a statement like this. Mr. Seidel
doesn t know anything about suspension, but he s visited two web pages --
not the entire sites, clearly -- and he is willing to bet his life
because there are more names and credentials on this page rather than
that one."

  I think you missed the point.

David I only said, "I don't pretend to understand the process of 
suspension. I will leave that to professionals."  This is the same reason I 
don't fix my own car or drill my own teeth or lots of other things that I 
can hire professionals for.  In the process of making the two videos I made 
for ALCOR I have talked with well over 50 people, all of which expressed a 
preference for ALCOR.  I am not going to waste time and space trying to put 
19 years of cryonic experience into reasons why I am an ALCOR member.

Are you a member of any suspension organization and for how long?  (Oh boy, 
this will probably elicit a response of 5000 words.)  Have you ever been to 
a suspension? (another 5000 words).  How about this?  Have you even read 
Robert Ettinger's, "The Prospect of Immortality" or Eric Drexler's, 
"Engines of Creation" or the reviews of these books?  (not enough space for 
this response).

Oh well, I guess we will have to plow through, yet another verbal 
fisticuffs by David Pascal.

Respectfully,
Billy H. Seidel

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