X-Message-Number: 23 From xuucp Fri Sep 23 04:25 EDT 1988 >From arpa!RELAY.CS.NET!dupont.com!JLCL01!BEATTYR Fri Sep 23 04:25:44 1988 remote from att Received: by att.ATT.COM (smail2.6 att-mt) id AA11148; 23 Sep 88 04:25:44 EDT (Fri) Received: from relay2.cs.net by RELAY.CS.NET id at14379; 22 Sep 88 19:53 EDT Received: from dupont.com by RELAY.CS.NET id ab12545; 22 Sep 88 19:29 EDT Date: Thu, 22 Sep 88 19:28 EDT From: "(Roy R. Beatty) Keane, Inc. [BEATTYR] 302-774-0335 B-10217" <BEATTYR%JLCL01%> Subject: CRYONICS - DD: Embalm To: ho4cad!kqb% X-VMS-To: @BWINE:[BEATTYR.MAIL]CRYO,BEATTYR Status: RO from The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce (no copyright mentioned) Embalm, v.t., To cheat vegetation by locking up the gases upon which it feeds. By embalming their dead and thereby deranging the natural balance between animal and vegetable life, the Egyptians made their once fertile and populous country barren and incapable of supporting more than a meagre crew. The modern metallic burial casket is a step in the same direction, and many a dead man who ought now to be orna- menting his neighbor's lawn as a tree, or enriching his table as a bunch of radishes, is doomed to long inutility. We shall get him after awhile if we are spared, but in the meantime the violet and rose are languishing for a nibble at his *glutus maximus*. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=23