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From: "John de Rivaz" <>
Subject: for Pizer: Robert Ettinger promising resurrection and eternal life
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 14:24:53 +0100

From: "David Verbeke" <>

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A couple of years ago Robert Ettinger said in  Future
Fantastic  on BBC world, and I quote:

 I predict that within the next couple of centuries, at most, our patients
in cryonic suspension will be revived and rejuvenated to live and love again
for as long as they choose.

I remembered being upset when I heard him making such a claim.
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It wasn't a claim, it started the words "I predict".

On http://www.alecharleyreeves.com there are many predications this PCM
pioneer made in the 1960s and early 1970s about the future of
telecommunications and the place of his inventions within it. They were
originally made to fellow engineering professionals at lectures originally
delivered at the premises of professional institutions. No one in their
right mind would try to sue him (if he was still alive) for the fact that
some of them turned out to be wrong. This is despite the fact that the
predictions were made in a highly professional environment where a legal
adventurer could suggest that he was laying the foundations for more grants,
fees or whatever - "pecuniary advantage", I think lawyers call it.

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Eivind Berge rightly expressed revulsion for the notion of suing or coercing
someone ostensibly for their own good.

This attitude of society at large is much more damaging to cryonics. The use
of legal force to dissect a person who would otherwise be cryopreserved is
an example.



-- 
Sincerely, John de Rivaz:  http://John.deRivaz.com for websites including
Cryonics Europe, Longevity Report, The Venturists, Porthtowan, Alec Harley
Reeves - inventor, Arthur Bowker - potter, de Rivaz genealogy,  Nomad .. and
more

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