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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.

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