X-Message-Number: 27003
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 16:02:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Platt <>
Subject: cemetery
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> Message #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.

Apparently your lawyer has given you appallingly bad advice.

Since CI was reclassified as a cemetery, they have lost the
capability to perform procedures in house. Is that your
objective too? You want to be prohibited from performing
cryoprotective perfusion, for instance? As a cemetery, you
can store people. Period. Unless the laws in your state are
VERY differnt from those in Michigan, Arizona, California,
and Florida (the states where I am familiar with
regulations).

> 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.

You are ill-informed. I suggest you read some cryonics
history. Cryonics procedures are performed on the same basis
in Arizona as in California. They are not specifically
regulated because no appropriate regulatory agency or
statutes yet exist. This situation prevails with full
awareness of the authorities. No one is "just going around
doing their own thing and hoping nobody will object." The
extensive negotiations between Alcor and the Arizona
legislature should have made that abundantly clear. Didn't
you read anything about this? I'm sorry, but you sound rather
clueless, and this is what concerns me.

If you really are determined to proceed, I will be happy to
share information with you personally; but it sounds to me as
if you may not be very open to information if it conflicts
with your preconceived ideas. I mean, you are not exactly
asking anyone's advice. You are telling people what you are
going to do. This does not sound very promising, although of
course it is very typical in cryonics.

--Charles Platt

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