X-Message-Number: 32713 From: Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:22:19 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Again for Melody & others ____________________________________ What's left after all the palaver is mostly contradiction and confusion, the only clarity being Johnson's deliberately throwing mud for profit. I haven't heard the alleged tapes, but would be very surprised if the identities of the speakers were clear and the context not in doubt. What is clear is that Johnson accepts the worst gossip, with the worst interpretation, to make money, and Melody goes along. "Euthanasia" could be, and is, argued ad nauseam, but if--I don't buy it, but if--someone at Alcor shortened a patient's life in order to improve his cryopreservation and possibly end his suffering, to call that "murder" is just preposterous. In hospice situations, thousands of times a year, narcotics are used to trade time for comfort. Police detectives investigated the incident and found nothing worthy of pursuit. Johnson saw dollars worthy of pursuit, and Melody assists him. Those nipping at cryonics always stop after a while. Either they get tired of it or they die. Robert Ettinger Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=32713