X-Message-Number: 18760
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 07:18:25 -0800
From: "E. Shaun Russell" <>
Subject: Trygve's Travesty

Trygve Bauge wrote:

>Re the cryonic winter festival in Nederland Colorado.
>"The frozen dead guy festival" (Grandpa Bredo's festival)
>Press release from Trygve Bauge.

Despite the fact that I have largely turned away from the cryonics field 
after the demise of Kryos Biomedical, I still read CryoNet, and I still 
find myself shaking my head in both disgust and regret for what could have 
been (and maybe...just maybe could still be) a promising industry.

It need not be said here that Trygve is a kook.  A loon.  Someone with a 
skewered sense of reality, but yet, like many kooks and loons before him, 
he has to inflict his looniness on all those around him.  And in his case, 
it is cryonics itself.

When an esoteric industry such as cryonics gets *any* amount of bad press 
whatsoever, people in general form opinions that are unfortunately, for the 
most part true.  By having loons create press releases such as this, I 
can't help but wonder if cryonics will ever get a single iota of 
credibility in the eyes of the scientific community and in society in 
general.  Part of the reason I am no longer involved in cryonics is because 
I think the answer is "no."  And that is just really too bad.

Trygve, no doubt, will read this and say: "What's wrong with what I'm 
doing?" thinking that he is actually helping things progress.  I think 
Shakespeare put it best: "O what a noble mind is here o'erthrown."


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