X-Message-Number: 1713 From: whscad1!kqb (Kevin Q Brown +1 201 386 7344) Subject: CRYONICS Summum in Hippocrates The January 1993 issue of the magazine Hippocrates (Health & Medicine for Physicians) has an entertaining two-page article on Summum by Rick Weiss in its "Vanities" section. Summum, which is based in Salt Lake City, Utah, offers mummification services for both humans and their pet animals. Their reason for offering mummification has nothing to do with a cryonicist's goal of reanimation with one's memories intact. Instead, the Summum folks just want to become good-looking corpses, which their room-temperature chemical preservation method apparently achieves quite well. (The memories in their brains, of course, disappear.) Why is that important to them? Corky Ra, who founded Summum in 1975, has metaphysical reasons, based on visions he received from extra- terrestrials, so he *must* be right! 8-) 8-) 8-) For some entertainment, you might want to check this out. Kevin Q. Brown INTERNET or PS: I will upload the article to message #1713.1, so that interested people can retrieve it by sending email to me with the Subject line "CRYOMSG 1713.1". Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=1713