X-Message-Number: 19376
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 01:49:22 -0500
Subject: Re: Christianity and Cryonics.
From: Brian A Stewart <>

>And this perception has some justification. Even the most experimental
of
>medical procedures has generally had some, what's that word? Oh, yeah,
>"success", in animal models. Cryonics, of course, has not. What's the
>highest lifeform that's been taken down to cryogenic temperatures and
>revived? A flatworm, maybe? Or perhaps not even that, I admit I'm
perhaps a
>little ignorant in that department. Certainly not a mamal, though, or
even a
>vertebrate.

I thought that some frogs could be frozen solid and revived.  But your
point is a valid one.  Most people won't be convinced until you can
answer the "Show me!" argument with a demonstration.  That will satisfy
most (not all, of course) that cryonics is a valid proceedure.

Until then, I think that the best approach would be to try to show people
that cryonics can be fit into their existing belief system as an
alternative to a standard burial (or cremation).  (Maybe as "If you are
later revived from cryonics, obviously it was not your time to go."?)

Brian

Brian A. Stewart-- Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A.
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we
are to stand by the President right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and
servile, but morally treasonable to the American public."
                            - Theodore Roosevelt

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