X-Message-Number: 3429 Date: Mon, 28 Nov 94 18:54:25 From: Bridge Steve <> Subject: CRYONICS TV on Alcor and Cryonics To CryoNet >From Steve Bridge November 28, 1994 Alcor Life Extension Foundation and cryonics will be featured this Thursday, December 1st, on "The Know Zone," a television program on The Discovery Channel. In most areas, this is shown at 9:30 p.m. In some localities, the show is repeated late at night or over the weekend. The Know Zone is a non-fiction technology/discovery show, apparently aimed at young adults. This particular episode deals with various aspects of death technology and includes an embalming and an autopsy. Cryonics is seen as a technological approach to death that may be the most common method in the future. I *think* the portrayal of cryonics will be positive. I expect about 5-7 minutes of coverage. By the way, SeaQuest (the generally awful submarine-SF TV show produced by Steven Spielberg) last night had a very positive cryonics episode. A suspension "patient" (they used that word) was brought out of suspension as a witness to a murder. She had apparently been frozen in a terminal (but not "dead") condition from an incurable virus. All discussions of the process were positive, and the message was definitely that life was worth living. Only one character -- the dumbest one in the cast, for a change -- expressed any reservations about suspended animation. "This freezing stuff just doesn't seem right; it's too spooky." Another character gave him a disgusted look and said, "It's not spooky; it's just technology." The woman went back into suspension at the end to await the cure, which was a plus. A Puerto Rican character (presumably Catholic) mentioned that he had an aunt in suspension. "*Nobody* leaves a Puerto Rican family easily. This is real big in Florida." One minus was that the head of the Cryonics (they used this word interchangeably with "cryogenics") company was one of the villains. I wish they'd stop doing that. Real cryonics presidents are friendly and helpful. Steve Bridge, Real Cryonics President Alcor Life Extension Foundation Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=3429