X-Message-Number: 32029
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 23:08:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: "John B. Krug" <>
Subject: Heads only:   I told you so.  Nobody listens.

Hi:


I've been against heads only cryonics for many years.  The advocates didn't 
listen and didn't care. Maybe they figured if and when the rain fell they 
thought they had an iron clad exemption from getting wet??  Some one on these 
forums demanded that everyone shut up and let the [Johnson] story die. So much 
for alien orders. The spiders tell me the story is alive and growing on the 
wires far and wide, complete with ignorant uninformed feedback and lousy humor.


What to do now. I think revisiting square one about what cryonics is and for is 
a good start. Transparency and honesty to be the foundation of the mix. Oppose 
and stop the heads only practice and defend the status of all those now 
suspended. More regulation is on the way. The deaf eared heads only true 
believers are getting what they asked for. 


Sometimes I wonder if cryonics is scandal and trouble prone because of an evil 
intervention zapping the process with idiot nutcase magnet viruses that fester 
and survive indefinitely. Cryonics is certainly not to be in "The Plan"?? 


There will now be more media scrutiny with visions of easy muckraking award 
plaques and Nobel Prizes? Lawmakers may show up with their higher office 
ambitions and/or spouting clerical friendly righteousness?  It didn't have to be
this way. 


If there is a future of the concept to be had, I think housecleaning is needed, 
plus standards, licensing and watching overseers.  Otherwise, it only makes 
common sense to stop wasting any more time and resources, pick up those marbles 
and go home.  Hopefully other well researched paths to survival and longevity 
will be successful instead.  

That's what I say.

JBK         

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