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Subject: Cryonics Quackwatch -- another "warning label"
Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 02:57:39 GMT

       Since posting my warning label about Jonathan Despres 
I have held my tongue. I believe that Jon is dangerously naive
and has the potential to create a financial, legal and media disaster 
that could be nearly as harmful to cryonics as the Ted Williams affair. 
However, I am not a policeman. If others in the cryonics community
are indifferent to the risk he represents, I cannot spend energy
on him. And it is frankly hard to know what constructive action could 
be taken. 
 
       I have received forwarding of mail from Rev Daniel Izzo of the
"Cryonic Life Insurance Company" who wants to sell ice burial plots
in Thule, Greenland as "natural cryonics".  This guy is as crazy as
they come -- probably the way cryonicists appears to many people. 
He has been around for years, discussed on SCI.CRYONICS, but 
I have seen no mention of him on CryoNet, so I thought it is time
for another "Warning Label", slighly different from my earlier
posting:     http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/dsp.cgi?msg=25953

      With friends like these, who needs enemies? It makes the
struggle for cryonics credibility seem like a hopeless oxymoron. 
The malfunctioning machinery makes the loudest noices. 

    I realize that I may have appeared this way myself with
such projects of mine as Permafrost Burial, but I do believe that
chemical preservation, dehydration, isolation from air and 
permafrost temperatures have a possibility of preserving enough
structure for future molecular technology to use for reconstruction.
These are scientific thoughts. The stuff by Rev Daniel Izzo is 
pure wacko huckstering.  Those who can stomach it might try 
looking at his "patent":

http://p087.ezboard.com/fmellowbluestufffrm3.showMessage?topicID=7.topic

and have a look at excerpts from a recent letter he wrote.      -- Ben Best 

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LETTER FROM REV DANIEL IZZO

Yes the Cryonic Life Insurance Company is interested in securing an ice 
glacier burial site for natural cryonics near the Thule US Airbase and 
THULE (QAANAAQ) Greenland community that is close by the airbase/airport

NATURAL CRYONICS IS CHEAPER THAN TRADITIONAL BURIAL,

It is estimated that transportation form New york City to Thule US 
Airbase, @$1,500 plus vault @$500 and local taxi service inland @$500 
to the ice glacier burial location ( free burial plots )

plus @$1,000 for services and extra transportation costs, total natural 
cryonic preservation costs @$3,500, this is cheaper than traditional 
cemetary burials ad provides the American Family hope in a medical 
resurrection and stem cells revivals one day.

The ice burial plots will be provided as a free gift for Americans and 
Service Members, who would like their families to be preserved in a 
frozen state.

   [snip] 

I am sure many US service members would rather be frozen and hope 
in a United States, medical resurrection as they are entitled I think,

God Bless You

from the Cryonic Life Insurance Company

Rev Daniel Izzo
Syracuse, NY
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