X-Message-Number: 3719 From: Subject: Re #3711 Date: Sat, 21 Jan 1995 18:44:50 -0800 (PST) Re Mike Darwin's reply to Ettinger (#3711): For the most part, I found Mike's argument to be hollow. For all his examples, I could just as well provide examples to the contrary, but unlike Mike I have more respect for the privacy of frozen patients. Even if we just use their numbers, once they are revived, it should be up to *them* to decide whether or not they want to have their personal problems and family histories aired in public. (Btw, an important coping strategy is to assume that patients will *indeed* be revived!) I think that Ettinger's best point was that it is the rest of the world that's nuts, not us. It's likely that some Alcor patients may have in fact documented their mental illness in their paperwork, but I don't see that as a valid excuse to use them in a particularly unproductive debating strategy. For that matter, using the tragic deaths of two cryonics patients to bolster your own reputation is also poor form. Ever forward, David Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=3719