X-Message-Number: 23620 From: Tim Freeman <> Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 10:36:50 -0700 Subject: Re: [CN] Cryonics Legislation Takes Another Step Forward References: <> From: Joe Waynick >Although I specifically requested our membership to be respectful in >their tone when contacting members of the legislature, a few members >decided not to heed that advice. ... It is simply unacceptable to impugn the >integrity of a member of the legislature no matter how passionate you may >feel about an issue. I can't tell if I was part of the problem or part of the solution here. Here's the email I sent. Due to a technical glitch I sent three copies to the alphabetically first representative, but all the others got only one. I did say promises made by Stump were broken, which one might argue impugns his integrity, but if I understand correctly it is a true statement that he broke the promises and I didn't emphasize that it was Stump's promises. Any opinions? Mail-from: From Wed Mar 10 22:42:13 2004 From: Tim Freeman <> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 22:25:43 -0700 From-Tims-Fingers: true To: >>>each representative<<<@azleg.state.az.us Subject: Vote NO on HB2637; it's ill-conceived Received-SPF: SPF-pass (lobus.fungible.com: localhost is always allowed.) X-Filename: 20040310224213.537 Hi. I'm an Alcor member living in California, and I hear that there will be a surprise vote on HB2637 tomorrow. The purpose of the bill is to outlaw cryonics in Arizona. The normal procedures have been abused for this bill in an attempt to get it passed without careful consideration, so I think you should vote against it as it stands now. Some of the abuses are: 1. The bill is an attempt to create new regulation, and the provisions of the sunshine act have not been carried out. This is supposed to ensure, among other things, that the funeral board gets additional funding to cover the new responsibilities that would be thrust upon it by the bill. 2. Alcor is the primary organization that is being outlawed by the bill, and it was not invited to the stakeholder meetings. 3. The bill only got through the Health committee because of public oral promises that it would be revised and the effective date will be extended. These promises have been broken. Regardless of what you think of cryonics, be aware that if the bill is passed there will be collateral damage to other activities in Arizona. These activities include organ donation and some activities of the University of Arizona medical school, perhaps ones concerning anatomy training for medical students. Please vote against it as it stands now. Thanks for your time. -- Tim Freeman GPG public key fingerprint ECDF 46F8 3B80 BB9E 575D 7180 76DF FE00 34B1 5C78 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=23620