X-Message-Number: 22802 Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2003 23:47:58 -0800 From: James Swayze <> Subject: Political ramifications for Boca bums. References: <> >Message #22786 >From: >Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 09:08:54 EST >Subject: Cryonics zoning in Boca > >Dear Cryoneters, > >I am very disappointed about the Planning and Zoning recommendation vote of 6 >to 0 which will be recommending to the city council that they reject the >zoning of the Suspended Animation research facility in Boca Raton. > > Perhaps they'll have a change of heart when they learn how much work they are going to be faced with, oh and not to mention trouble, bad press, ill will and political difficulty that could cut short their careers. It's quite simple really. SA simply must demand that the standard they are being applied with be equally and fairly applied to their peers. SA is not a mortuary services. They do not prepare bodies for viewing by loved ones. They do not prepare bodies in a deliberate manner that slows deterioration just long enough for memorial services but allows the body to, indeed requires it to, rot at a rate that slows the leaching of rotten material into the water table. Such rotting is planned into the process for the purpose of reclaiming cemetery space many years hence. SA is trying to preserve human remains so as to prevent rot. SA does not perform memorial services for family and friends of the deceased and indeed treats it's charges as patients. Like hospital morgues, hospital laboratories, medical teaching establishments and private research laboratories, SA stores human remains in a manner to prevent rot for facilitation of experimentation, manipulates human remains for same and accepts human remains via the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. This is doneby all, SA and peers, for the purpose of experimentation into the advancement of medical technology which the ultimate goal of is the pursuit of methods of preserving human life. SA's peers then are apparently already mistakenly zoned if the Boca Raton P & Z is of the opinion that the activities SA is involved in classify them as a mortuary service. Storage of tissue in liquid nitrogen can be found at SA and any of SA's peers. Manipulation of human remains, cutting, slicing, drilling, etc. can be found at both SA and any of SA's peers. Treatment of human remains with chemical compounds can be found at SA and at any of SA's peers. The list of comparison goes on and on. In civil law it is often the preponderance of evidence that rules the day. In my humble opinion then the preponderance of evidence is that SA has nothing in common with mortuaries and everything in common with experimental labs, hospital labs and morgue, university teaching and research labs or facilities and many more. SA must demand that fairness prevail and that all of Boca Raton's private and university research and teaching labs, hospital labs and morgue all be reclassified s mortuaries and then rezoned and as necessary caused to move to proper zoned areas as per Boca Raton P & Z advisement. I recommend Jerry Spence for a civil lawyer in this matter if he is still available. James -- Member: Cryonics Institute of Michigan http://www.cryonics.org The Immortalist Society http://www.cryonics.org/info.html The Society for Venturism http://www.venturist.org Immortality Institute http://www.imminst.org MY WEBSITE: http://www.davidpascal.com/swayze/ Signature Memetic Virus--The worst enemy of those who now or will need medical care is the uninformed politician or moral fanatic who proscribe what doctors are allowed to prescribe and research, with the consent of their patients. Those who understand this are strongly encouraged to modify this to fit their personality, and add this to their signature file, and organize to recover our freedom from Big Brother. For those who wait until they are sick, it will be too late. Those who suffer from diseases which might have been cured by advanced medical research or schedule 1 drugs banned by Big Brother, have the right to hold accountable those who sat on their hands or worse, deferred their responsibility for personal and humanity's survival to unseen mystical agents, while they remained ill and dying. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=22802