X-Message-Number: 14046 From: Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 10:58:49 EDT Subject: Immortality On Ice on Discovery Health I suppose everyone on Cryonet has already seen it, but there was a good program on cryonics on Discovery Health last night (Immortality On Ice); they actually showed those northern frogs being frozen and revived on time-lapse photography. They had interviews with the Ettingers and the Alcor team, and everyone looked very good, I thought. And when someone finally puts in the money to make human cells increase their sugar concentration and make protective proteins like those frogs... then the government still won't let you freeze yourself until you have terrible brain damage. I think the way to sell cryonics is to sell the idea of "skipping death" by freezing before death... there will be more opposition, but also more active support. People may not care about living, but they care about avoiding pain. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=14046