X-Message-Number: 26605
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 12:03:04 -0700
Subject: Alcor & Pseudoscience
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David wrote:

> Have you asked Alcor if they would do the storage, if you set up 
> the procurement?  If so, what was their answer?

If Alcor gets entangled with the pseudoscience of plastination, 
freeze drying, or chemopreservation, a number of members will be 
turning elsewhere for fulfilling their suspension requirements.

And I will be one of them.

Vitrification is based on science. We have vitrified kidneys and 
brought them back to working order. The goal of vitrification is 
the preservation of life. The goal of these other methods is the 
preservation of dead bodies (albeit with the hopes that enough 
information will be preserved to enable the creation of duplicates 
that merely think they are originals)---precisely because these 
methods induce so much damage that the resulting tissues are 
incapable of functioning in any way, and are therefore dead in 
every sense of the word.

I don't want my cryonics provider even associated with such 
pseudoscience.

Richard B. Riddick

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