X-Message-Number: 21812 From: "Peter C. McCluskey" <> Subject: cryonics-relevant quotes from recent books Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 09:19:13 -0700 (PDT) From page 296 of Daniel Dennett's Freedom Evolves: "Suppose a competent but diseased adult asked you for assistance in putting his living body into cryogenic suspension of life pending some low-probability discovery of a cure for the disease somewhere down the road. Wouldn't that be assisted suicide? Today, arguably, it is; tomorrow it may be as obviously justifiable as assisting in the administration of anesthesia to somebody about to undergo potentially life-saving surgery." From page 44 of Rakesh Khurana's Searching for a Corporate Savior: "In Morals and Markets, Zelizer solves one of the great puzzles of nineteenth-century economic history, the sudden popularity of life insurance in the United States after decades of failure to convince the public of its importance. ... Zelizer finds that public resistance to life insurance was largely the result of a value system that condemned putting a monetary value on human life. ... the major religious organizations in the United States officially denounced life insurance as a sacrilege, arguing that the very idea was incompatible with the Christian values of charity and compassion." -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Peter McCluskey | "To announce that there must be no criticism of http://www.rahul.net/pcm | the President, or that we are to stand by the | President right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic | and servile, but morally treasonable to the | American public." - Theodore Roosevelt Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=21812