X-Message-Number: 18810 From: "Toby Christensen" <> Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 12:45:31 +0800 Subject: Attention James Swayze... James, I think it is obvious that cryonics needs disabled people like you and I signing up. It's the most obvious use for cryonics. Our circumstances are very different, you and I, but the basic message is the same; cryonics presents a beautiful opportunity for people like me (brain injury), you (quadraplegia) and the numerous other afflictions that millions face. To have more disabled people in cryonics is to, I believe, level the playing field a lot more. If more disabled people are able to access cryonics, this will be one of the greatest PR triumphs cryonics could ever hope for, because it brings the Australian concept of a "fair go". Could we really say that to have a twisted, palsied, drooling wreck, worse off than myself and certainly worse than a "normal" person, go to their grave after a lifetime of disability was fair? When I asked my stepdad why disabled people were put in their graves after not getting "a fair go", (he is utterly opposed to cryonics), he replied "Because that's life!" Not good enough. Rape and murder are events in life, but they are not acceptable either. So I put out the clarion call to all disabled people out there, not just myself and Swayze, to endeavour to get ourselves frozen and thereby get a fair go. -- _______________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup Travelocity.com is giving away two million travel miles. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;3969773;6991039;g?http://svc.travelocity.com/promos/millionmiles_main/0,,TRAVELOCITY,00.html Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=18810