X-Message-Number: 26272
From: "IGGY & Svetlana" <>
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Subject: Leaving a message for a cryonic patient
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 10:57:03 -0400

 In CryoMsg 26257 benbest wrote:
>>   Agnes Harcourt is the pseudonym of a Cryonics Institute
>> patient who was dearly beloved by her large family as
>> well as by her many friends and associates.
>>
>> The following telephone conversation was recently overheard
>> between a CI staff person and an unidentified caller:
>>
>>   Caller: May I please speak to Agnes Harcourt?
>>   Staffer: Agnes is currently in biostasis, would you
>>            like to leave a message?
>
>  Someone has written me a very nasty e-mail message
> accusing me of fabricating this whole story for the sole
> purpose of pulling the collective leg of the cryonics
> community. I challenge anyone questioning my veracity to
> come to CI and examine the cryostat in which Agnes is
> being stored. It is covered with post-it notes.
>
>              -- Ben


Why not have fun on the one hand? And on the other hand, this should get us 
all thinking about the legacy we are leaving behind? Otherwise, life will be 
dull.

I thought originally it was a very nice and elegant and tasteful cryonics 
joke. How many Catholics tell jokes about the Pope? :o)

Now, if there is an "Agnes" in cryonic suspension with lots of "Post-it" 
phone messages on her container, it's even more elegant and thought 
provoking. This person should be proud that she's on the minds of people 
after her death. What can be better than that? - just future reviving she 
has taken a chance on accepting?

Ben, great story, joke or not... Boy, cryonics requires some balls and I 
know how that biologically it's tough for a woman to get those :o)

IGGY Dybal 

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