X-Message-Number: 28175 Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 14:45:22 -0400 From: "Mikhail Soloviev" <> Subject: Fighting for the Right to Be Frozen (article on the BC anti-cryonics law) Hi! A really excellent article was published today in a BC daily newspaper The Tyee: http://thetyee.ca/Life/2006/07/05/Cryonics There is a forum and comments are welcome. Few people commented the article and some of the comments are not cryonics-friendly. There will be a BC funeral directors' meeting tomorrow, where the subject of cryonics will be discussed. As I understood some of the meeting participants are aware of this article and positive comments to it could make a difference. I post my comment as follows: * * * This law is about my right to buried according to my beliefs -- either I believe in Jesus Christ or in science (cryonics). The law prohibits "... an arrangement for the preservation or storage of human remains that is based on ... any other means of preservation or storage ... that is offered ... on the expectation of the resuscitation of human remains at a future time." The Christains believe that their dead bodies will be resuscitated at a future time and changed into imperishable, immortal bodies -- by the power of the God. (See citation from "1 Corinthians" below.) The cryonicists believe that their dead bodies will be resuscitated at a future time and changed into imperishable, immortal bodies -- by the power of science. (Resuscitation contradicts Christianity no more than any other life-saving medical intervention.) So either this law prohibits both Christians and cryonicists to be buried according their beliefs -- or it accepts my belief in Jesus Christ (and treats it as an exception) and denies my belief in science. From 1 Corinthians, 15:51 (New International Version translation): "Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed - in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: 'Death has been swallowed up in victory.'" * * * Best wishes, Mike Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=28175