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From: "John de Rivaz" <>
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Subject: Re: Zuma to table cryonics proposal to get tougher
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 11:41:10 +0100

It is always best to check on Google before sending in press cuttings on 1 
April

http://www.worldaffairsboard.com/world-affairs-board-pub/43739-april-fool.html

The trouble is that people take these things seriously. In the early 1990s, 
a lady correspondent in Wales got very excited because she found a press 
report dating from the 1950s or 60s saying that a UK cryonics facility had 
been started. She did not read the article thoroughly, as it clearly stated 
that it was actually supposed to be glimpse 30 years into the future.

The idea of people being sent into the future as a punishment for crimes is 
not new, having appeared in both fiction and serious books. The 
possibilities are

1. People in the future may have better ideas about how to rehabilitate them
2. Without all their friends around them they may be less able to comit new 
crimes.

The latter is not beneficial to the cryonics movement, as many people cite 
the lack of friends as being a reason not get cryopreserved. Neither is it 
particularly sensible, as without treatment the criminal will soon find new 
friends with wihich to comit more crimes.

-- 
Sincerely, John de Rivaz:  http://John.deRivaz.com for websites including
Cryonics Europe, Longevity Report, The Venturists, Porthtowan, Alec Harley
Reeves - inventor, Arthur Bowker - potter, de Rivaz genealogy,  Nomad .. and
more

----- Original Message ----- 

Subject: Zuma to table cryonics proposal to get tougher
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 22:16:55 -0400

In line with his repeated calls for South Africa to get tougher on crime,
African National Congress president Jacob Zuma has confirmed that he will be
putting forward proposals for the introduction of cryonics at the next party
conference.
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