X-Message-Number: 22421 Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 10:36:12 -0700 From: James Swayze <> Subject: No worries, CI can handle the state References: <> > #22418: Michigan: State Orders Local Cryonics Institute To Close [Mark Plus] > > I'm certain that this can be worked out. In the meantime nobody die, please! As usual the state is over stepping their bounds. I smell funeral industry medling here, though I could be wrong... another misguided sports fan maybe? At any rate they are wrong on so many levels it's difficult to mention them all. But to begin with and mention but a few CI operates under the anatomical gift act. It is not a cemetary because the bodies are not rotting in the ground. The spirit of the funerary laws and regulations being cited are to protect the public from disease and contamination from the disolution of rotting bodies. I wonder, is the state requiring that hospital morgues containing refigerated bodies be licensed as cemetarys? If a preserved organ donation company started up would they be likewise coerced? Again we are the victims of the ambiguity of law and language. We do not consider cryonics patients as dead but we must have them legally pronounced so before doing the suspension procedure. I am confident that CI can point out these things and several others to the state functionarys. If it were me I'd be putting an investigator on the principles involved to find any links to TW fanatics or the funeral industry. James -- Cryonics Institute of Michigan Member! The Immortalist Society Member! The Society for Venturism Member! MY WEBSITE: http://www.geocities.com/~davidpascal/swayze/ Signature Memetic Virus--The worst enemy of those who now or will need medical care is the uninformed politician or moral fanatic who proscribe what doctors are allowed to prescribe and research, with the consent of their patients. Those who understand this are strongly encouraged to modify this to fit their personality, and add this to their signature file, and organize to recover our freedom from Big Brother. For those who wait until they are sick, it will be too late. Those who suffer from diseases which might have been cured by advanced medical research or schedule 1 drugs banned by Big Brother, have the right to hold accountable those who sat on their hands or worse, deferred their responsibility for personal and humanity's survival to unseen agents, while they remained ill and dying. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=22421