X-Message-Number: 20727 From: Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 05:45:31 EST Subject: #20723: Japanese funeral director interested in facilitating cryo-preservation --part1_122.1c8f68d5.2b3edacb_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This has actually been an interest of mine... I am moving back to Japan. I've wanted to sign up with CI for years, but in all honesty, what use would it be if I were to die and kept in a refridgerator for 3 weeks in a Japanese morgue after an extensive autopsy... I know that there are numerous individuals in Japan curious about cryonics... but "interest" is not enough. If active solutions were offered, I'd personally be happy to sign up and EVANGELICALLY spread the word. The key issue is law related to Japan, the US, not to mention to mention the practicalities related to a 12+ hour trans-pacific flight. Prof. Ettinger was kind enough to send me a Japanese translation of his book a few years ago which I've shared with Japanese friends. - - It is interesting... while Americans tend to object to cryonics on deeply rooted religious and cultural biases, I notice the Japanese will find it interesting, though overall fatalistic in their attitudes regarding death's inevitability... fortunately, a bit of imagination can easily overcome a person's fatalistic tendencies (in the face of practical solutions), whereas the religious and cultural baises that many American's have would be significantly less reversible. *If* a practical cryonics org. was established in Japan with a feasible game plan geared towards the actual practical and legal realization of contracts and arrangements for cryo-preservation, preferably with an already established cryonics group in the US, I would be the first to join. An undertaker would be the ideal person to get such a ball rolling, if he or she is actively working in that field and already familiar with the Japanese legal system... Ed --part1_122.1c8f68d5.2b3edacb_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=20727