X-Message-Number: 22366 From: "mike99" <> Subject: RE: Larry Johnson contacted Laconia's Polidoro in May Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 10:06:28 -0600 Isn't it weird that Ted Williams' daughter, and novelist Polidoro, consider that "saving" Ted means removing his remains from cryonic suspension and cremating them? How does giving his body a "proper burial" or "cremation" save Ted Williams? Save him from what? From having his bodily remains forever removed from the possibility of resuscitation? Or simply saving those bodily remains from the "dishonor" of being treated in a culturally non-standard manner? Does "honoring the dead" mean making sure they are burned up and/or buried? Isn't that something like driving a stake through the heart of a vampire so that it will not rise again? Or could honoring the dead mean really giving those unfortunates the chance at living again? Please, honor me by giving me that chance for future life. I don't want to be among the mob that seeks to bury its dead and then follow those bodies into the finality of the grave. That mob is, in truth, already dead. As Jesus said, "Let the dead bury the dead." As for me, I choose life. I want my living cryonicist colleagues to properly prepare my remains so that I (and eventually they) may have a chance at more life, and have it abundantly. Regards, Michael LaTorra Member: Extropy Institute: www.extropy.org World Transhumanist Association: www.transhumanism.org Alcor Life Extension Foundation: www.alcor.org Society for Technical Communication: www.stc.org > Whistleblower contacted Laconia's Polidoro in May > By ED PILOLLA > Monitor staff > > http://www.cmonitor.com/stories/news/local2003/081503_ted_williams > _guy_2003.shtml ... > As Williams's children still feuded over what to do with his remains, an > employee of the company quietly phoned Polidoro in May and described what > was happening to the body. > "He wanted to do a book deal with me," Polidoro said yesterday. "I said, > 'Why mess with someone like me? I'm not a well-known author.' I told him, > 'You don't need me for a book deal, you need to come out and > reveal what you > know, and some major publisher will pick you up and you'll be known as the > guy who saved Ted Williams.' " .... Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=22366