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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
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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".

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