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Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:40:45 -0700
Subject: 1973 article about cryonics
From: MARK PLUS <>

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Apparently the problems associated with the kinds of people drawn to
cryonics go way back:

The Iceman Cometh: The Cryonics Movement and Frozen Immortalty, by Clifton
D. Bryant and William E. Snizek. Society, Nov.-Dec., 1973.

Quote:

"In their enthusiasm to sell the cause, followers may well have oversold it.
Some have publicly boasted of their intention to become 'immortal supermen';
other spokesmen have suggested future 'super armies that never wear out,
thanks to a continued supply of rejuvenated
men.' Such remarks are hardly calculated to convey the image of rational
reform. The cryonics movement, like any other attempt at scientific and
social innovation, inevitably attracts its share of eccentrics, and writers
who covered some of the early conferences and meetings of cryonics groups
reported 'odd mixtures of people,' and specifically mentioned 'vegetarians.'
Funeral directors, clergymen, physicians and public officials, never
enthusiastic as a whole about cryonics, are presumably more rigid in their
posture of opposition than in the early days, when innovation and prospect
outweighed practical disadvantages."

You can read the whole article at either of the following links:



http://www.scribd.com/doc/27514724/Iceman-Cometh?secret_password=2caov1mrh18v8yjt8bwz

http://www.box.net/shared/static/7zterv1gck.pdf


-- 
Mark Plus
Life is short: Freeze hard!

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