X-Message-Number: 24258
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 12:20:12 -0700
From: James Swayze <>
Subject: Rural minister pontificates on cryonics
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>Message #24247
>From: "Beth Bailey" <>
>Subject: New cryonicist with interesting anecdote
>Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 09:59:39 -0400
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>This weekend I attended the funeral of a 94 year old family member in an 
extremely rural area of Pennsylvania. The Minister who conducted the service 
told mourners that "chirogenics," [sic]  or having one's body frozen is simply 
"human folly" and a "selfish desire to deny the inevitability of death."
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>Beth
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Beth,

This begs the obvious questions; How did the subject come up so that the 
minister felt compelled to comment? and, Was he addressing you 
personally or the crowd? and, If the crowd how indeed was the crowd 
involved in discussing cryonics and how did they receive his 
oh-so-quaint wisdom?

James

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