X-Message-Number: 13796
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 10:01:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ben Best <>
Subject: Cryonics Society of Canada Scientific Advisor Killed

    Dr. Malcolm Ramsay -- a professor at the University of Saskatchewan
and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Cryonics Society of
Canada -- has been killed in a helicopter crash in the high arctic near
Resolute Bay. Dr. Ramsay was a world authority on polar bears. He has 
left a wife and two young children (ages 11 and 3) who miss him terribly.

    Dr. Ramsay's interest in cryonics was more intellectual than personal.
He believed in preserving the "natural order" -- even including the 
sacrifice of his own life to the next generation (although he was not 
anticipating such an early death). He was unmoved by my vision of vast
ecosystems engineered in colossal capsules in space. Nonetheless, at the
insistance of his 11-year-old son, samples of Dr. Ramsay's tissues are 
being cryopreserved in hope of possible future cloning. 

   Malcolm was a longtime personal friend and contemporary of mine. This
event has allowed the ugly finger of death to touch me in a particularly
personal way -- besides being yet another reminder of the fragility of life.

   Surprisingly, the Canadian National Post news story on Dr. Ramsay's death
mentions his role as Cryonics Society of Canada Scientific Advisor. This 
article is on the web at:



http://www.nationalpost.com/news.asp?s2=national&s3=coasttocoast&f=000523/296518.html

                          -- Ben Best, Director
                             Cryonics Society of Canada 

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