X-Message-Number: 22582
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 22:15:12 -0500
Subject: Re: CryoNet #22570 The AAGA and Arizona politics
From: Brian A Stewart <>

>> Arizona law prohibits mutilation of a body. Among several
>allegations made
>> by Larry Johnson, a former Alcor employee, are that Alcor
>severed Mr.
>> Williams s head, drilled holes in it and fractured the
>skull, the magazine
>> reported.
>>
>>  That to me is mutilation, if it happened,  Mr. Thomas
>said.
>
> COMMENT
> 
>What is done to bodies at medical schools also might be
>"mutilation" to Mr. Thomas also, but that's irrelevant. The
>law in Arizona actually does not prohibit the mutilation of
>dead bodies  it only becomes mutilation if done without
>force or coverage by law. 

It occurs to me that what happens to ANY dead body is not particularly
pleasant!  Does the funeral industry widely spread what goes on during
the preparation of a body for display at a funeral?  From what I can
tell, cryonics outfits are very open about the procedures (and costs)
than the regular funeral industry.  Maybe if Alcor were to suggest that
regulations be set up such that funeral parlors have to detail exactly
how their bodies are prepared prior to burial, and crematoriums have to
describe what goes on when a body is reduced to ash, that they would be
happy to be included under the same guidelines, comparing how much they
"mutilate" a body prior to storage!  (That might get Mr. Thomas to shut
up!  OTOH, I really don't understand people objecting to cryonics in the
first place....)


Brian 

Brian A. Stewart-- Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A.
"To announce that there must be no criticism of 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

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