X-Message-Number: 22256
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 00:48:58 -0700
Subject: Australian Cryonics
From: Peter Merel <>

Bob Ettinger writes,

> Mr. Merel apparently is going to be pretty far to
> the northeast in Queensland, so another mortician closer to him should 
> be
> found, which should not be difficult.

I'll be out of the way, but not that far out of the way. Murwillumbah 
is in New South Wales, about 1 hour south of Coolangatta and 1.5 hours 
south of Brisbane. My teahouse has a superb view of the NSW/Qld border 
range, part of the eroded caldera of Wollumbin now covered with virgin 
rainforest. A few snaps of same are at 
http://www.greencheese.org/LimpinwoodTeahouse .

Furthermore at least some of the time I'll be ably assisted by a dear 
friend of mine who happens to be a qualified and experienced cardiac 
perfusionist. Of course being just 41 and in good health I rather 
expect to employ her skills in the garden than the operating theatre 
... and I haven't canvassed how she feels about this particular brand 
of lunacy ...

Bob, do you have any clients in Brisbane or thereabouts?

> The main problem in Australia is the possibility of several days delay 
> in
> paperwork, plus long flight times to Michigan.

Yes. I'm trying to avoid facing the likelihood that if I should 
encounter a need for emergency suspension I'd most likely be completely 
screwed.

Just in case anyone's contemplating starting a new org or extending an 
existing one I should point out that Australia is a tectonically stable 
continent with no real winter, cheap land, proven democracy, world's 
best engineers and doctors, no religious extremism, the Asian market on 
the doorstep, an active euthanasia lobby, a government open to research 
on stem cells and cloning, and even a number of media personalities 
willing to come out and say they're signed up for cryonics ...

Hmm. You know there might just be enough wealthy madmen in and around 
Byron to find backers to start an org. Damn, I need that like a hole in 
the head - yet another bloody megalomaniac project! Ah well, no harm in 
talking to a few of 'em ...

Hmm again. Flicker of recollection. Didn't Phil Rhoades start down this 
path? Phil?

Peter Merel.

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