X-Message-Number: 5849
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 11:49:28 +0100
From: John de Rivaz <>
Subject: Re: cryonics on uk.legal etc

In article: <> 
 writes:
> 	The current debate (only small parts of which are appearing
> on CryoNet) is taking place in sci.cryonics, sci.life-extension, and
> uk.legal (dont' know who started it there; John deRivaz?).  These

Yes, I did start it, taking up a point in a thread about a uk 
convicted murderer that is the subject of a "five minute hate" every so 
often by the media. There are now a couple of side threads that are running 
quite healthily as well.

The main Deathleader seems to be one John Sharman, but I am not sure what 
his occupation is.

> newsgroups have a readership numbering the tens of thousands, and
> every message I post includes pointers to more cryonics information
> on the net.  Aside from exposing many new people to the arguments
> in favor of cryonics, these debates are also an opportunity to 
> present diverse facts and arguments in support of cryonics that
> even many people within cryonics might not be aware of.
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

This is an extremely important point. If a cryonicist lives in a vacuum 
alone somewhere, then he is at risk to lying dead for weeks even months 
before being found. Maybe his wishes will be followed for the want of 
anything better to do. But there is probably very little to stop him moving 
his life to live to near a cryonics organisation.

If he lives amongst death-kneeling people he has somehow to convince them 
to allow his wishes to be carried out even if he can't convince them to 
join him. But of course the very best thing a cryonicist can do in order to 
survive is to get a few people who live nearby him to sign up.
 
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