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From: "davepizer" <>
Subject: Shouldn't we do something?   ------- NO!
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 10:28:40 -0500

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Trent < asked:  "Shouldn't we do something?"

"I am watching all the negative publicity from this, and it is quite obvious 
that this is a dysfunctional family that is grasping at straws to sue each 
other. It wouldn't matter how he had been buried. This sick woman is trying 
to whip up anti-Cryonics bigotry in the same way that a nazi would to 
"prove" their point about racial inferiority to obtain political power."


You may be right, but at present she is not attracting much publicity and even 
less support against cryonics - she seems to be dying away - any response to 
her, in my opinion, would just give her potential (but uninterested at present) 
supporters some reason to get involved.  This woman is boring the public at 
present.  She is no present threat.

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"We need to portray this woman (AND her brother?) for what they are - both 
greedy, ungrateful spoiled children who will do, or say, anything for a 
dollar. The sister, however, elevated this sick dysfunctional family 
dispute into a  bigoted campaign, complete with shadowy conspiracies of 
mysterious Cryonics people, clones, etc. - filled with lies, hate and 
bigotry. She has gone beyond attacking her brother, beyond money grubbing, 
to insulting and defaming an entire class of people based on their belief 
system."


If you write like that to the public (non-cryonics) audience you will encourage 
more people to support her and to dislike us.  I think this kind of writing even
in the cryonics forums will turn people off to us.  You might mean well, but 
there is no need to insult someone who is not causing us any harm.  If fact, the
incident, at least so far, has been good for cryonics.  The present staff at 
Alcor seems to have handled things well and the cryonics movement has received 
lots of useful mentions as a result of all this.  There is a place for 
indignation in the cryonics movement (indignation against people who let other 
people die forever), but it is not in a public, political style arena like this 
one.

Sincerely,

David Pizer

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