X-Message-Number: 26442 Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 19:49:38 -0400 From: Subject: To: D. Pizer -- Please Keep Cryonics Out of Your Lawsuit If you are determined to fund a lawsuit to keep religions from saying certain things, please do it solely on the merits of issues like the illegality of making unsubstantiated claims, and make no mention of cryonics in it anywhere. Cryonics won't help your legal arguments anyway, as nobody knows yet if people will ever be revived from it and therefore there are presently no aggrieved persons. Mentioning cryonics may even distract from your position being heard, from the noise created by public scorn and ridicule. But as others have pointed out, the main reason I ask is that if cryonics becomes linked to a lawsuit against the churches, we could see legislative and regulatory problems that make the Ted Williams-related stuff look like a jaywalking ticket. Even after millions of dollars of fighting such things, cryonicists could still see their organizations vanish through legislation. Thank you for looking at the real world, on this. BTW, what I am speaking of may be starting already. You might have a look at: http://www.network54.com/Forum/message?forumid=291677&messageid=1120052214 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=26442