X-Message-Number: 2305
From:  (Thomas Donaldson)
Subject: Re: cryonics: #2301
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 93 17:56:21 PDT



As for Charles Platt's message, RIGHT ON!

Cryonics has badly needed research since it began. There are many many problems
which need to be solved before we can even be confident that we will be 
revivable (ie. alive) after suspension. Any scrutiny of an electron micrograph
of frozen brain should tell us that (yes, it will also give us ideas for how
to fix the injuries we see .... but we haven't fixed them yet, have we?). And
of course that question is only the first one in a long series.

The future is NOT a place to which we travel. We MAKE the future by our own 
actions --- or we get to watch others make it. The major class of actions 
for which (for whatever reason, good or bad) cryonicists have generally been
lacking is RESEARCH. Petty squabbles should not occur among us on this issue:
our true enemy is Death itself, and squabbling rather than facing this enemy
only pushes us toward its victory.
				Best and long life to all,
					Thomas Donaldson
-- 

Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=2305