X-Message-Number: 13021 Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 22:55:18 -0700 From: Mike Perry <> Subject: Suffering I feel very sorry for James Swayze who (1) is suffering enough to at least raise the issue of whether death would be preferable and (2) apparently would sign up for cryonics but lacks the funds. (For the record I'll say too that he may have suffered more than the rest of us, but some of us have known hardships too.) The issue of people who seriously want to be frozen at death to seek a life in the future but who can't because of funding problems is a disturbing one to me. They certainly don't deserve destruction for their lack of means. The thought of their sacrifice is disgusting, an outrage. It raises the issue of the possibility of either raising funds for them, or assisting them somehow to do more in that direction themselves, or both. This is the sort of thing the Society for Venturism is supposed to be interested in, though presently our resources are very meager, and our membership very small. I hope people on this forum will consider this issue seriously. Let's hear what you think. What can we do? We must not sit idle while good people are condemned to execution. Mike Perry Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=13021