X-Message-Number: 26996 From: "Jordan Sparks" <> Subject: RE: well intentioned initiatives Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 07:14:30 -0700 Hi Charles, Well of course I have a lawyer. Duh! Our first attempt will be to try to get licensed as a cemetery under the existing laws. The only exception we might need would be that we would not be zoned as a cemetery. So approval would not break any laws. It would depend on our ability to convince the mortuary board to give us a license. As I said, they are very reasonable. We are modeling this after the CI license for a cemetery, except that we are not asking to be treated differently than other cemeteries. CI's license includes a number of exceptions. If the board has any objection, it will probably be that cryonics does not qualify as permanent interment in the same manner that a sealed crypt in a mausoleum would. After hearing the facts, if they do have that objection, then we will start to fight that battle. I don't believe this will be harmful to cryonics. Quite the opposite. This battle will need to be fought on a state by state basis. The earlier we start, the earlier we will get regulation and oversight in place that is crafted with our help rather than without our knowledge, as happened in AZ. I think everybody knows my very pointed opinion by now that Alcor should either be licensed as a medical facility or a funeral home/cemetery or even both. You can't just go around doing your own thing and hoping nobody will object. That's the kind of behavior that causes a backlash, not what I'm doing. Jordan Sparks Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=26996