X-Message-Number: 33351
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 21:32:23 -0600
Subject: Re: Message #33349
From: Finance Department <>

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Gerald Monroe asks "Why doesn't Alcor or CI have a lab in Oregon to take
advantage of this law?" (referring to the Death With Dignity Act there)

Perhaps it is because they confuse "euthanasia" which when done to humans is
illegal most everywhere, with "assisted suicide" which is legal many places
such as Oregon (and ordinary "suicide" now legal most places)?

There would appear to be nothing illegal or improper for a cryopreservation
team to pick up immediately on someone who is pronounced dead from an
assisted suicide.  It might though become a hysteria-trigger for the press
and the anti-cryonics promoters, who would, first, get it wrong and call it
"euthanasia" and, second, shout aloud as to moral and ethical improprieties,
including false claims that the cryonicist was a victim of those greedy
organizations who killed him for his life insurance money, and on and on.

Maybe the cryo organizations should draw their line in the sand, and say
enough is enough, they are no longer going to be intimidated by the rantings
and ravings of irresponsible online journalists and anti-cryonic
propagandists, and are instead just going to do the right thing and let the
fallout go where it will?  The detractors are always going to find something
adverse to say, no matter what you do or don't do.

Cheers,

FD

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