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 Message-ID: <> 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. *************************************************************************** Brian Wowk CryoCare Foundation 1-800-TOP-CARE President Human Cryopreservation Services http://www.cryocare.org/cryocare/ Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=6431