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From: Mark Plus <>
Subject: A cryonics-friendly Surgeon General?
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 19:13:36 -0800


President-elect Obama reportedly wants a neurosurgeon who moonlights as a TV 
health reporter on CNN to serve as his Surgeon General:

CNN Medical Reporter Tops Obama List for Post
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/us/politics/07gupta.html?hp


Dr. Gupta has written a sympathetic description of speculative technologies for 
radical life extension, including cryonics, in his book "Chasing Life: New 
Discoveries in the Search for Immortality to Help You Age Less Today":



http://www.amazon.com/Chasing-Life-Discoveries-Search-Immortality/dp/0446698180/ref=ed_oe_p


The Life Extension Foundation also published an interview with Dr. Gupta in the 
August 2007 issue of its magazine:

http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2007/aug2007_cover_gupta_01.htm


"Around 2010 the world will be at a new orbit in history. . .  Life expectancy 
will be indefinite. Disease and disability will nonexist. Death wll be rare and 
accidental -- but not permanent. We will continuously jettison our obsolescence 
and grow younger." F.M. Esfandiary, "Up-Wing Priorities" (1981).


Mark Plus



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