X-Message-Number: 25796
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 17:32:55 -0800
Subject: Re: Watson
From: Kennita Watson <>

On Monday, Mar 14, 2005, at 02:00 US/Pacific, CryoNet wrote:

> Message #25785
> From: 
> Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 12:32:44 -0500
> Subject: Watson
>
> From a Colorado newspaper:
>
> [description of Halloween-type costumes, floats, and acting-out has 
> been omitted]
>
> Kennita Watson, a cryogenics advocate, was on-hand at the Frozen Dead 
> Guy Days Expo Center to promote cryonics life insurance policies. She 
> said the dry ice method of preserving Grandpa isn't ideal because dry 
> ice is not cold enough to stop all the decomposing processes in 
> Bredo's body. It's likely, she said, Grandpa's corpse already has 
> deteriorated beyond the point that he can be brought back to life in 
> the future.
>
> "People don't really want to think of Grandpa as an experiment, but he 
> really is," Watson said.
>
> ============
>
> So, it worked out the way rational people would expect. The event was 
> a freak show, the media covered that way, cryonics was presented as 
> something between snake oil and comedy, and Kennita Watson got her 
> name in the newspaper (which was all she really wanted all along).
>
> Watson is an airhead dilettante.

What Watson is is too sensitive to brush off such insults
as she expects some of her friends would suggest she ought.
She is also too tired from two 10 to 5 days spent standing
and explaining the difference between Grandpa Bredo's dry
ice preservation and mainstream cryonics to hundreds of
people, virtually all of whom appeared neutral to positive,
and about 85 of whom completed a Cryonics Attitudes Survey
whose results she will report on a later Cryonet (perhaps
gainsaying appearances) to finish her trip report (or to
defend herself against this attack.

...
I loved the weekend, BTW, and I just got home and I'm
about to take a nap.  Cheers.

I care about you all, even those who seem to despise me;
and I want all of us who want to live, as well as those in
the general public who don't know they want to live yet, or
don't know how, to have that chance.

Live long and prosper,
Kennita
--
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
none but ourselves can free our minds.
           -- Bob Marley, "Redemption Song"

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