X-Message-Number: 23619 Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 11:31:37 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Platt <> Subject: Frozen Dead Guys References: <> Kennita Watson recommends: "Is anyone planning to go up to the Frozen Dead Guy Days? I think they're a *great* idea, and I would pitch in money towards travel expenses. I don't think Alcor (ACS, CI) would have any trouble distinguishing their procedures from those used to preserve Grandpa Bredo, and we might even get some good press." Sorry, Kennita, I disagree. During the floor debate of the Stump bill one representative said he sees no difference between Alcor procedures and "the guy in Northern Arizona who put his wife in a deep freeze" (discovered in Prescott, last year). Do-it-yourselfers such as the Prescott individual and Trygve Bauge (formerly of Colorado) make cryonics seem ridiculous and encourage hostile legislation. They constitute a threat to anyone who takes cryonics seriously. An appropriate response to "Dead Guy Days" would be a press release condemning the act which started it and emphasizing the differences between garage-body-freezers and modern cryopreservation procedures. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=23619