X-Message-Number: 6731
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 19:14:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Platt <>
Subject: Leary again

I have a personal policy these days of not replying to anonymous posts
that are "cosenza-esque" in tone (regular CryoNet readers will know what I
mean), but I am more than willing to reply to serious comments such as
those from Peter Merel. 

Mr. Merel writes:

> It seems pretty obvious from what's been posted that Leary dismissed
> cryocare because they pissed him off by being less than diplomatic. In
> this they obviously blew it big time, but they hardly denied him their
> services - he went on record to say that he bore them no ill will, but
> simply had something else in mind.

I hope I won't seem to be quibbling if I say that in fact CryoCare was
extremely diplomatic, and CryoCare was not dismissed.  Rather, Leary made
a general decision to reject cryonics regardless of its source--CryoCare
or any other organization, diplomatic or otherwise. 

A long article on the Leary case will appear, with photographs, in the 
next issue of CryoCare Report. The text of the article, without 
photographs, has already been posted to our web page:

http://www.cryocare.org/cryocare

In addition I understand that the next issue of Cryonics magazine will
contain an article by Steve Bridge on the Leary case; and the next issue
of Extropy magazine will contain an article by Max More on the Leary case.
I hope that these three articles will be sufficient to satisfy everyone's
curiosity and/or grievances. 

--Charles Platt


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