X-Message-Number: 20894
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 21:28:00 -0600
Subject: More Ignorance In Ottawa IL
From: Joesph A Zarka <>

Kevin Foster, a member of the write team of my local paper wrote
what may be the most ignorant article on cryonics ever. His first ten
paragraphs bashes Clonaid, which I agree with. However he does
not stop there. Here is what he has to say about cryonics.

  "Speaking of fools, baseball great Ted Williams' body has been
frozen by his son for some reason. I still don"t understand why this
was done. Is he on the Clonaid board of directors? Is he planning
on selling his father"s DNA to produce a race of .400 hitters? Would
they all play on the same team? Should that team be the Minnesota Twins?
  Why anyone believes thier body or sometimes just their head would
be better off frozen than buried is beyond me. I trust the cryogenic
people even less than the cloners. At least with the cloners you"ll see
something for your money even if it doesn't look like you.
  I'd love to take a vacation to the South Pacific and run naked in
the surf of some Polynesian island some day. For about the same
amount of money, I could have someone lop off my head and
stick it in a freezer after I'm dead.
  Now, if I should opt for the cryogenics, there's no guarantee
anyone is ever going to do anything with my frozen head. But they'll have
my vacation cash just the same.
  So before I sign on the dotted line I'll need to have my head examined.
I'm sure they'll do that every time they defrost their equipment.
  Maybe I'm being too critical about all this. Maybe I really do have
an alien clone somewhere in Ohio. Maybe we all should  stick our heads in
the freezer. Well, some of us should."

Is it possible to be more Ignorant? Perhaps we should hold a contest
on cryonet and find out. Mr. Foster can be contacted at 
drop him an e-mail he needs to be put in his place.

If anyone would be interested we have a section in our paper called
the Voice Of The People. You could write letters to the editor
concerning this article and show our community how ignorant this
idiot is. It is a small paper so most letters do get published. There are
a few rules. It must be 300 words or less, letters must contain the
writers
city and phone number and be signed. 

The Daily Times
110 W. Jefferson St
Ottawa, IL 61350

Long Life

Joseph

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