X-Message-Number: 29531
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 20:33:58 -0400
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Subject: Re: Boston Globe article on Alcor and Ted Williams

"Former Alcor employee Ben Best, now president of the Cryonics
Institute in Clinton Township, Mich., emphasized in a recent
phone interview that little has changed in the science the
last five years."

    I was a former Alcor Member. I have never been an Alcor
employee. I think that the science of cryonics (or cryonics
technology and the science behind cryonics technology) has
changed a great deal in the last five years.

"As for a scientific lab lacking the feel or serenity of a
bucolic resting place, Best noted that through cryonics,
'Something greater exists -- the possibility that we can
come back. I think that should count for a heck of a
lot more'."

    The journalist said that Ted Williams fans are deprived
of a gravesite where they could visit and pay their respects.
I noted that if Ted had been cremated and his ashes scattered
in the ocean they would have been similarly deprived. I also
noted that fans get something a heck of a lot greater than
a place to stand and pay their respects -- the possibility
that HE could come back.

    Compared to what I have seen from other journalists these
inaccuracies were fairly minor and the treatment of cryonics
in this article was reasonably fair.

           -- Ben Best

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