X-Message-Number: 7418 From: (Thomas Donaldson) Subject: Re: CryoNet #7412 - #7417 Date: Sat, 4 Jan 1997 09:12:21 -0800 (PST) Hi again! out the stats on autopsy: I'm still puzzled by the high percentage of autopsies. Would anyone explain? There other ways things can fall to pieces look like their statistics are appropriate, but in virtually all the reports of suspensions I've read autopsy did not happen. So what's going on? (And I include here the reports by Alcor when Mike Darwin was a member and a major participant in Alcor's suspension team). 20% just seems too high. Incidentally, I and at least oneother resident of San Mateo Cty have met the local coroner, explained our problems, and become friendly with him. He was not at all negative when we explained. One added point to Mr. Merel: Mr. Merel, as an Australian, should know this, but others may noThe Chimbus did NOT chop down all their forests in very recent times as a response to overpopulation. They had already chopped down their forests when Australian and American aviators discovered them by flying over their mountains in the Second World War (and of course they were later visited on the ground). They were more populous than most other groups, probably because they were (comparatively) less violent: no cannibalism, no bloody wars. They did have wars, though, and lived in villages with the men all in a separate men's house (a barricks, basically). Their main crop was a variety of sweet potato. Yes, OK Tedi (the mine) has caused its neighbors lots of problems. Didn't I say that people would screw one another up? But it's not in Chimbu territory --- they were lucky. They do raise coffee for export, now. At one time on Cryonet I believe I told the story of the Chimbu (illiterate, of course) who ended up as the head of a trucking firm (trucking the coffee down to the coast for export). Best wishes to all, and a long long life, Thomas Donaldson Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=7418