X-Message-Number: 28175
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 14:45:22 -0400
From: "Mikhail Soloviev" <>

Subject: Fighting for the Right to Be Frozen (article on the BC anti-cryonics 
law)

Hi!

A really excellent article was published today
in a BC daily newspaper The Tyee:

http://thetyee.ca/Life/2006/07/05/Cryonics

There is a forum and comments are welcome. Few
people commented the article and some of the
comments are not cryonics-friendly. There will
be a BC funeral directors' meeting tomorrow,
where the subject of cryonics will be discussed.
As I understood some of the meeting participants
are aware of this article and positive comments
to it could make a difference. I post my comment
as follows:

* * *

This law is about my right to buried according to
my beliefs -- either I believe in Jesus Christ or
in science (cryonics). The law prohibits "...
an arrangement for the preservation or storage of
human remains that is based on ... any other
means of preservation or storage ... that is
offered ... on the expectation of the resuscitation
of human remains at a future time."

The Christains believe that their dead bodies will
be resuscitated at a future time and changed into
imperishable, immortal bodies -- by the power of
the God.

(See citation from "1 Corinthians" below.)

The cryonicists believe that their dead bodies will
be resuscitated at a future time and changed into
imperishable, immortal bodies -- by the power of
science.

(Resuscitation contradicts Christianity no more
than any other life-saving medical intervention.)

So either this law prohibits both Christians and
cryonicists to be buried according their beliefs --
or it accepts my belief in Jesus Christ (and
treats it as an exception) and denies my belief
in science.

From 1 Corinthians, 15:51 (New International Version
translation):

"Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all
sleep, but we will all be changed - in a flash,
in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.
For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be
raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
For the perishable must clothe itself with the
imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.
When the perishable has been clothed with the
imperishable, and the mortal with immortality,
then the saying that is written will come true:
'Death has been swallowed up in victory.'"

* * *

Best wishes,
Mike

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