X-Message-Number: 32395
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:46:24 -0600
From: "York W. &/or Lois G. Porter" <>
Subject: Re: cryonics terminology

Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010
1:45 p.m. CST

Some second thoughts occurred to me concerning the points I presented 
earlier. I was trying, in some ways, to "tone down" some of the original 
statements from Mike's article and may have gone overboard for the purposes 
of using the statements as "anti fraud" language. The two basic areas 
(there may be others) that I noticed on reflection were:


In the first statement the original language was used at the end of it as : 
"...legal/clinical death and damage sustained from the application of 
today's imperfect freezing process."

I changed this in my wording to: "...legal/clinical death and whatever 
damage, if any,  is sustained from imperfections in the storage process 
used, and to revive the individual and restore them to a state of youthful 
good health."

I thought, after I had sent the original post, that the "if any" part 
should be eliminated. Guess that's what you get for adding phrases "on the 
fly" to stuff you've already written out in longhand. I was originally 
trying to provide for the possibility that future suspension techniques 
might result in no additional damage. That would, of course, be covered by 
the phrase "whatever damage".

The next thing I thought might need to be altered:

I wrote, in statement labeled 3) that:  "It is often publicly labeled by 
some credentialed people as being either a fraud or quackery." I was trying 
to slightly tone down the original statement which says : It is often 
publicly labeled by credentialed people as being either a fraud or 
quackery." The addition of the word "some" seemed to me to be perhaps not 
quite as "harsh" as the original statement. Again, though, for the purpose 
of "anti fraud" langauge, the word "some" should, perhaps, be replaced by 
"many" so that it would now read "It is often publicly labeled by many 
credentialed people as being either a fraud or quackery." I was trying, 
both in the use of the word "some" and in the present use of the word 
"many" to indicate less than universal labeling on the part of credentialed 
folks.

There may be other problems that I would certainly like to read comments about.

York

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