X-Message-Number: 17304 Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 09:31:01 -0400 From: Thomas Donaldson <> Subject: praise for 2 messages Hi everyone! Two messages seem to me to deserve praise and comment. 1. Stephan Bogner's message about a new and effective anticancer treatment does bear on the concerns of many cryonicists. As someone who's already been treated for cancer, and lacks any real assurance that I won't suddenly find that I have it again, it's good to know of experimental treatments which work that well. Other prominent cryonicists have recently revealed their own run-in with cancer, Saul Kent and Art Quaife also come to mind I suspect that others also have that problem. 2. John Grigg's comments about the Church of the Latter Day Saints and their approach to cloning (though he didn't say what it was). I am not taking back anything which I said about the relevance of religion to cryonics. However any cryonicist with religious feelings can be expected to be interested in how their religion adapts to biological technology (even cloning of human beings is a very primitive form of biotech. Wait for 100 years and then see what we have!). So long as they do not insist that their concern is fundamental to cryonics itself, cryonicists of any particular religion can be expected to think about that issue, and sometimes their thoughts will interest other cryonicists. I was NOT arguing that they should never post on Cryonet. Best wishes and long long life to all, Thomas Donaldson Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=17304