X-Message-Number: 19457 Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:22:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Driven FromThePack <> Subject: Excellent NY Times article http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/10/science/10WILL.html Some quotes: Despite his unwillingness to discuss any relationship with the Williams family, Dr. Lemler was willing to lead a tour of the Alcor complex, including the entirely nondescript concrete room in which eight "big foot" cylinders and two shorter ones are housed and monitored so their inhabitants, bodies and heads immersed in liquid nitrogen, are assured of an optimal chance for life after life. .... There are those, Dr. Lemler conceded, who may laugh at and scorn Alcor for what it tries to make possible, at $50,000 a head or $120,000 a body. But considering the flood of calls that Alcor has received in recent days, many other people see cryonics as an intriguing pathway to a future world, free of disease or even death. It is a far cry from Alcor's first 30 years, a period of relative obscurity in which the foundation struggled to be taken seriously beyond a fringe of individuals who truly believed in the possibilities of regeneration. .... <<and themost important part, the article ending>>: As a future patient himself, Dr. Lemler said Alcor was the only true form of life insurance anyone could buy, anything else being "death insurance," as he called it. But even at that, he expressed hope that one day Alcor's services would no longer be needed. "When that happens," he said, "it will be a great day for mankind." >>> Great job, Dr Lemler. Considering it is from the NY Times, and this is a relatively slow news week, this is one of the best (for cryonics) pieces I have ever seen. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=19457