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Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 05:55:54 EST
Subject: Re: CryoNet  #25717 Dog suspended at CI

From: "David Verbeke" <>

> You would try to give the animal a sort of gift it cannot even 
> comprehend, because it is simply not aware of such a thing as being and 
> not-being.  The animal is just a collection of intentional systems who lack 
> the interaction that can come to an understanding of the end of life, ... as 
> 
> humans can.  I don't say it should be denied, there's no wrong doing in 
> suspending animals.  I just think it's the reflection of human 
> knowledgde/fear on a creature that is totally different and is totally 
> unaware of such knowledge/fear.
> 

Well, how many dogs, cats, and so on have you interviewed on that subject ?
If you put nearly any animal  in a life treatening situation, it will try to 
escape it. If this is not an experimental an observational proof that it value 
its life and make a difference between life and non-life, what is it ?

The real difference between us and animals is that we have the possibility to 
gain a small probablity to escape definitive death by using cryonics. Animals 
can't chose that option, but we can give it to them.

Yvan Bozzonetti.


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