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From: Tripper McCarthy <>
Subject: Thank You Melody and Eveyone Else Who Commented
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:23:25 +0000

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I would like to first thank Melody for taking the time (and take as much as you 
need) to answer my questions. They were seriously and genuinely asked and I'm 
grateful you are treating them as such. I would also like to thank Mike, Keith, 
and Kitty for joining in the discussion. In regards to Kitty's comments about 
the Cryonet ratings for Melody's posts, this all just seems a bit silly to me. 
We may not all agree with each other, but censoring someone out like Melody just
seems wrong. I would encourage everyone who feels the same to go to 
cryonet.org, find Melody's current and old postings, and give them a positive 
rating so she can once again be heard by everyone. 


I don't think there is one person in our community who doesn't think that the 
cryonics industry couldn't stand to be improved. Out of the media storm we are 
currently in I think there is a golden opportunity to take a hard look at how 
the industry is currently run and how we might improve it. This hard look 
entails exploring both our held assumptions and the specific details on how we 
do (or could do) cryo-preservations. I know not everyone agrees (or is going to 
agree) with all the proposed solutions out there. But there has to be some 
common ground which we can at least start with. My hope is that at the end of 
this we can have some solid and well thought out recommendations for change to 
present to Alcor/CI/SA etc.


One last thing I would like to implore to the community during this discussion 
is to keep the personal snipes to a minimum. I know that is hard right now with 
all the bad press. But I think at the end of the day everyone wants the same 
thing, a top notch cryonics industry that gives the best preservations possible.
Let's not lose sight of that in battles over how to get there.

Tripper McCarthy


 		 	   		  

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