X-Message-Number: 26421 From: Subject: British Columbia Update Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:37:19 GMT At the Cryonics Institute we recently received a letter from Tayt Winnitoy, Director of Operations for the Business Practices and Consumer Protection Authority of the Province of British Columbia. In the letter, he stated: "...you are correct in your statement regarding the sale of cryonics arrangements in British Columbia. It is now section 14 of the Cremation, Interment and Funeral Services Act which states: ************************************************************************ Prohibition on sales, and offers of sale, of arrangements relating to cryonics and irradiation 14 A person must not offer for sale, or sell, an arrangement for the preservation or storage of human remains that is based on (a) cryonics, (b) irradiation, or (c) any other means of preservation or storage, by whatever name called, and that is offered, or sold, on the expectation of the resuscitation of human remains at a future time. ************************************************************************* "This section therefore prohibits the offering or selling of cryonic arrangements in BC where the offer or sale is premised on the expectation that the human remains with be [sic] resuscitated at a future time." Andy Zawacki, our facilities manager, had asked for clarification and re-assurance concerning our understanding that British Columbia law only prohibited the marketing of cryonics, not the practice of cryonics. We have been told this repeatedly by BC bureaucrats: http://www.cryocdn.org/law57.html most recently in a letter to Olaf Henry: http://www.cryocdn.org/law57.html#letter If British Columbia does indeed only prohibit marketing, there is no way that any lawyer doing an investigation from an enquiring hospital or funeral service would get that understanding from a law that explicitly says not person shall "offer for sale, or sell" preservation or storage based on cryonics. Nor would they get that impression from the letter from Tayt Winnitoy -- which did not otherwise answer Andy's question. The British Columbia Cremation, Interment and Funeral Services Act is online (Bill 3 -- 2004): http://www.legis.gov.bc.ca/37th5th/1st_read/gov03-1.htm If Dave Pizer is eager to have a lawsuit, I suggest that he initiate one against the government of British Columbia. -- Ben Best, President, Cryonics Institute Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=26421