X-Message-Number: 26420 From: Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 13:15:38 EDT Subject: Re: Cryonics and Religion Dave Pizer has unnecessarily used a whole lot of words and strained logic and to state the obvious, which is: Many people have a way to deal with death that they believe is better than cryonics. The reverse is also true: Cryonicists are people who do not believe there is a better way to deal with death. That is not a problem or conflict as long as everyone leaves each other alone to manage their life as they best see fit. It is only a problem when someone violates the preceding. So, the problem is not what people of faith believe, but the fact that some of them believe it is ok to force their beliefs upon others. That is true conflict and something that cryonicists must defend against. The fact that some people don't want extended lives or peacefully err in their way of achieving it is not among my most urgent concerns. My most urgent concern is the need to continue to develop procedures to make cryonics work, meaning achieving true suspended animation and finding ways to satisfactorily revive those already in cryonic biostasis. Michael Riskin, speaking for himself and not as an Alcor officer or director Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=26420