X-Message-Number: 23585
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 19:24:39 -0500
From: randolfe wicker <>
Subject: Sorting out relationships???

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Sorting our relationships?  That is a question I often ask religious people 
about my father and my mother.


  I'm posting it here because Robert Ettinger mentioned in a posting in the 
  longevity Report that both his wives were in cryonic suspension.


I think descriptions of people who move into different environments and then 
reinvent their lives to be very comforting.


However, hoping I am not putting Mr. Ettinger on the spot, I'd like to ask him 
the same question I ask people who believe in an afterlife in heaven through 
Christian rebirth rather than those who believe in rebirth on Earth through 
cryonics.


My father dearly loved my mother.  They were sweethearts from their early teens,
got married in their early twenties and were happily married for twenty-five 
years.


When my father died of three-packs-a-day cigarette habit at the age of 49, my 
mother did exactly as he predicted--she went trapping for a new husband and 
landed a very fine widower within a year.


She was married to her second husband, a retired General, for nearly thirty 
years.  He was eight years her senior and died at the young age of 87.  The 
minister told her that few women celebrate 'silver anniversaries" with two 
different husbands.


Now, I have become quite angry over the fact my mother has chosen to be cremated
and buried with her second husband.


Yes, the General had lots more money and took her to something like 89 countries
on trips all over the world.  But I know my mother's "true romance" was with my
father.


Forgive the long lead in to my question to Mr. Ettinger.  "How do your two wives
and you sort things out when you come back not in heaven but right here opn 
Earth?"


I often ask people: "Would my father appreciate the fact the General took good 
care of his wife for nearly thirty years or would he want to beat his ass for 
screwing his wife?"


And what would my mother do?  Would she go back to my father because he was her 
"first" husband or choose the General because he was the richest husband and the
one who spoiled her the most?


And what about the General's first wife?  Would she appreciate that my mother 
gave companionship and mothering to her husband,s daughter after she was no 
longer able to?  Or would she be jealous as Hell?


And again, would the General be forced to choose between his two wives if both 
of them wanted him in "their new incarnation"?


Mr. Ettinger need not answer this in a personal fashion.  However, I think this 
raises some interesting aspects on being "born again" whether that be done by a 
miracle in heaven or by cryonics science on the face of Mother Earth?

Cloningly yours,
For Eternal Life,
Randolfe (Randy) Wicker

Founder, Clone Rights United Front, www.clonerights.com 
Spokesperson, Reproductive Cloning Network, www.reproductivecloning.net
Advisor, The Immortality Institute, www.imminst.org
email: 
phone: 201-656-3280


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