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Newsgroups: uk.legal,sci.cryonics,sci.life-extension
From:  (Brad Templeton)
Subject: Re: Virtue of suffering
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 10:14:49 GMT
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As far as I am concerned cryonics organizations should stay as far as
possible from any attempt to suspend before legal death, *including*
legal assisted suicide, should it ever be allowed.

You just have to look at the debates over assisted suicide to realize
that people are against it even when the patients face painful, lingering
death, and suspect the motives of the doctors and all those involved.

Now you want to have the sick opting for the assisted suicide of
cryonics?  As far as the public is concerned this will mean quacks
selling a fraudulent scheme for huge sums, giving the terminally ill
a clearly false hope in order to make a bundle.  You don't view it
that way but I can assure you the public will.

If I were a member of a cryonics org that even publicly considered
suspending a living patient, I would thing seriously about switching
cryonics orgs.  That org won't be around long.
-- 
Brad Templeton, publisher, ClariNet Communications Corp.	 
The net's #1 E-Newspaper (1,200,000 paid sbscrbrs.)  http://www.clari.net/brad/


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