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 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=15680