X-Message-Number: 32797
From: "John de Rivaz" <>
Subject: Re Breaking news about women and Cryonic / Eilmeldung zum The...
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:13:53 +0100

I can find nothing on the search engines that actually support this claim 
about Paris Hilton and Lady Gaga wanting cryonics. The links posted were 
just images of the women concerned - no text about cryonics or anything 
else.

Unfortunately celebrities have learned that they can say something about 
cryonics and get in the papers for a day or so, and if fans protest or they 
get bad publicity just laugh it off as a joke. They want publicity, good or 
bad - as long as their names are spelt correctly. I would have thought that 
Joanne Stefani Germanotta with her street theatre character, the singer Lady 
Gaga, was doing well enough not to need this sort of thing, though. But many 
reports do link her with Paris Hilton who may be the originator of the story 
that Jens found but I could not.

Many cryonicists hope that a celebrity will support the concept and thereby 
encourage fans to follow them. Unfortunately none of the people with more 
serious public images who would have made better role models have done so. 
[Germanotta is almost certainly an extremely serious, thoughtful and 
successful businesswoman/entertainer, but her public persona is not intended 
to be.]

-- 
Sincerely, John de Rivaz:  http://John.deRivaz.com for websites including
Cryonics Europe, Longevity Report, The Venturists, Porthtowan, Alec Harley
Reeves - inventor, Arthur Bowker - potter, de Rivaz genealogy,  Nomad .. and
more 

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