X-Message-Number: 4015 From: (Brian Wowk) Newsgroups: sci.cryonics Subject: Re: Church of Cryonics Date: 14 Mar 1995 23:21:58 GMT Message-ID: <3k58em$> References: <> The public relations wisdom of presenting cryonics as a "religion" is questionable. Remember that most people (including cryonicists) already have their own religion, be it Christianity, Humanism, Extropianism, Venturism, or whatever. As a purely speculative medical procedure, cryonics is compatible with (not in competition with) any religion that values individual human life. Most cryonics organizations are already tax exempt (501(c)3) or have tax exempt sister organizations through which tax-deductable donations can be made. ERS dues cannot be made tax-deductable in any scheme, religous or otherwise, because they are a fee-for-service not a general donation. Thanks anyway for your interesting observations. I assure you these religion analogies have not been lost on the cryonics community. More than anything else, I find comparisons to religion a persistent source of frustration. You surely must realize that there is a very basic incompatibility between trying to present an idea as scientific on the one hand, and yet religious on the other. You can't have it both ways. I have chosen mine. Brian Wowk, CryoCare director Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=4015