X-Message-Number: 27016
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 13:22:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Platt <>
Subject: embalming

Sparks: "Perfusion is to be done by a licensed embalmer at a
licensed funeral home."

Okay, if you are so well informed, I assume you know how
embalmers are trained and how embalming is usually done. I
assume you are fully aware that cryoprotective perfusion is
different from any procedure normally performed in funeral
homes and embalming facilities. I assume you are aware that
you will not only have to retrain people but in addition you
will be requiring regulatory officials to certify the
acceptability of equipment that they have never seen and do
not understand. (Our attorney specifically advised against
this approach. I take his advice seriously because he has
also been certified as mortician, is counsel for four funeral
homes, and has argued cases before the state board of funeral
directors and embalmers. Can you tell us a little about the
attorney whom you are using for advice?) I assume you realize
that you will basically be telling the entire regulatory
system to "Be reasonable, do it my way."

This is your whole approach, isn't it?

None of this would bother me if you weren't so arrogant about
it. Your contempt for people who have spent their lives in
this field is quite amazing.

In any field where legalities have not been established,
precedents are still being set, and diplomacy is essential,
the last thing we need is a cowboy who makes no secret of his
uninterest in what other people think.

I believe you constitute a threat to the future wellbeing of
many people who read this forum.

You have not addressed my primary previous point, which is
that cryonics in Arizona and California has been tested (in
the state legislature in Arizona, and in court in California)
and found to be unsuited for control by existing regulations.
With full awareness and implicit consent of the legal systems
in both states, cryonics proceeds unregulated simply because
the appropriate laws have not been drafted. What is it about
this situation that you find unacceptable? Why do you feel
such a self-righteous need to screw around with it?

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