X-Message-Number: 16902
From: "Trygve Bauge" <>
Subject: I am back, please retract the obituary!
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 20:38:33 +0200

"All publicity is good publicity,
as long as it is not an obituary,
and an obituary is O.K. too,
as long as one can get (in) a retraction".
Quote copyrighted by Trygve Bauge (C)1986, 2001
The above is a part of Trygve's Aphorisms found on his website.
All rights reserved, copyfee charged.
Permission granted for posting to the Cryonet and the Cryonics Europe list.

Here I am away from the internet for 2 1/2 days,
and people think I have fallen ill?

Maybe it has to do with age.
I had a life before internet even was invented,
and I still have a life, and a girl-friend.

O.k. I spent the extended 4th of July holiday with her.
And I don't think that qualifies as manic depressive behaviour, at least it
was not depressive.

If you are innovative and not afraid of doing what you see as right, and
then active on the Internet, you might frequently experience more feedback
than you can posibly respond to.

I have had it the same way with media coverage many times in my life: 50 or
more journalists fighting one another to get hold of me, and the TV trucks
standing in line: over icebathing events, cryonic suspensions, political
fights etc.

You can't always respond to it all. And if you try, you might (at least on
the Cryonet) get falsely and wrongfully accused of being manic depressive.

So for the record: I have never had any mental illness,
and I am usually happy. As a matter of fact I can't remember ever having
felt depressed. I usually go into fighting mode instead and usually see the
light at the end of the tunnel (and it is not an oncoming train), or as we
say in Norway: Behind the clouds, the sky is always blue.


I don't like to let erroneous postings stay unrebutted, but internet is so
huge, that it is imposssible for one person to respond to all the errors, as
I tried last week.

And apparently the Cryonet doesn't have the capacity or will, to serve as
the bulletin board where all cryonic related rebuttals can be posted. Nor
does it seem to have the capacity or will to serve as a live ongoing
publishing channel for all aspects of a post mortem cryonic suspension.

Then it might just be better to just create valuable achievments, and let
such do the talking, then all the errors posted by others will fall on their
own lack of merit.

But thanks to Rick Potvin, I now have my own forum, that I can post all my
cryonics articles too, including the continuous correspondance on the
Australian case.
You are all welcome to visit Trygve Bauge's Cryonics of Norway Discussion
Forum:

 http://network54.com/Forum/136627

sincerely,

Trygve Bauge

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