X-Message-Number: 1657 From: (Thomas Donaldson) Subject: Re: cryonics: #1644-#1653 Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 9:49:40 PST To Ralph Merkle: Please note what I said in my next-to-last comments to Charles Platt. Our prob- lem is that often (but not always) we simply do not have the kind of control you (or anyone) would have in a previously arranged "talk". As for immortality, yes, the purpose of medicine SHOULD BE immortality. Doctors have lots of confusion about this, even more because now they face every day the consequence of their confusion. So maybe the people in the fable might listen to those firebrands rather than simply shouting them down. Or perhaps they aren't even firebrands, but just people who have a problem with not speak- ing bluntly. To Steve Harris: I've never found you unintelligible. Just literate. Welcome to the club. Best and long life to all Thomas Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=1657