X-Message-Number: 9949
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 12:02:43 +0100
From:  (John de Rivaz)
Subject: Re: Pohl

In article: <> Saul Kent writes:
>         Pohl, who wrote the article in the June 1964 issue
> of Playboy magazine ("Intimations Of Immortality") that led
> me to Bob Ettinger's book (The Prospect of Immortality) was
> confident that cryonics would work and had no social reasons
> to be against cryonics.  Despite Pohl's  favorable outlook
>  towards cryonics, however,  he's never signed up to to
> be frozen and will, undoubtedly, become dust himself.

Wasn't he actually offered free suspension membership by Alcor at one point, 
and rejected it?

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