X-Message-Number: 6431
From:  (Brian Wowk)
Newsgroups: sci.cryonics
Subject: Re: Passive Suicide - strange irrelevant intellectual argument etc.
Date: 2 Jul 96 15:15:34 GMT
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References: <4qq0iu$> <4quivv$>

In article <4qq0iu$>,  (Doug Skrecky) wrote:

>      Ultimate disposition of the bodies of deceased humans is at present
>  limited to cremation, rotting in the ground and cryonics. 

	This is a very bad angle to take in promoting cryonics.
It's rather like saying, "The ultimate disposition of patients
with severe coronary artery disease is limited to cremation, rotting,
or cardiac bypass surgery."  Would heart surgeons want surgery 
expressed as an explicit alternative to burial and cremation!
Then why would we want cryonics presented that way?

	On an unrelated matter, sorry I never replied to your
Sorbitol query on CryoNet.  The short answer to why sorbitol
isn't used instead of glycerol is that glass-forming agents
like propylene glycol show much more promise.  The answer 
to why these agents aren't used instead of glycerol is that
the empirical verification (i.e. reserach) hasn't been
done yet. 

	Another unrelated matter: The CryoCare email address
is now  not 
Thanks for mentioning us in your manuscript.
   
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Brian Wowk          CryoCare Foundation               1-800-TOP-CARE
President           Human Cryopreservation Services   
   http://www.cryocare.org/cryocare/

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