X-Message-Number: 22855 Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 22:14:50 -0500 From: RANDY WICKER <> Subject: Safeguarding cryonics --Boundary_(ID_XEfO3zzRQj9WFFNAE63RVg) Content-type: text/plain; charset=Windows-1252 Safeguarding cryonics? Reading the postings here about where it might be politically possible to keep cryonics legal fills me with a "been-there done-that" feeling. As a human cloning advocate, I can assure you that there will be international proposals to protect the "sanctity" or "dignity" of the human body/life by passing an international ban on cryonic preservation once the moralists get stirred up enough. There is a naivet in James Hughes's suggestion we go to the Dominican Republic. a hot and tropical Banana Republic where money buys anything. I know. I have been there many times. If we had the cocaine lobby on our side, we could certainly arrange it. However, I wonder why cryonic organizations go to warm locations like Arizona and/or the Dominican Republic to keep bodies at sub zero temperatures. Wouldn't Antarctica be a more sensible choice? Randy's suggestion of Dennis Kucinich as a protector of cryonics is remarkable. I admire Kucinich because he is truly a very moral and decent person. However, until he decided he wanted to run for President, he was "right-to-life", something they tell me he has now changed positions on. He was also one of the most gifted orators against therapeutic cloning and reproductive cloning in the House of Representatives. I often direct media folks his way as "one of the best spokesmen" against cloning. I remember his searing cry from the floor of the House: "Is human life to be the next commodity?" His allies describe therapeutic cloning as "creating human life to strip mine it for body parts". Good luck on recruiting Dennis Kucinich! Finally, someone described themselves as being trapped by bioethicists in Arizona. I have a tape broadcast on C-Span in which a bioethicist named Allen Buchanan got an entire meeting upset by being open-minded and liberated. I have been meaning to contact him. I have no idea as to where he stands on human cloning and/or cryonics but he is certainly able to "think outside the box" and that is what is necessary to find someone willing to defend either or both issues. Randolfe H. Wicker Founder, Clone Rights United Front www.clonerights.com Spokesperson, Reproductive Cloning Network, www.reproductivecloning.net Former CEO, Human Cloning Foundation, www.humancloning.org 201-656-3280 (Mornings) --Boundary_(ID_XEfO3zzRQj9WFFNAE63RVg) Content-type: text/html; charset=Windows-1252 [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=22855