X-Message-Number: 470
Date: 22 Sep 91 10:20:54 EDT
From: "John S. Gilliam, M.D." <>
Subject: cryonics: #464 - #466

 I'd like to respond to Thomas Donaldson and I'm not sure I know how.  I'll
just outline my reply as follows:
 
 Thomas:
 I grew up in the Baptist Church.  I now occasion a Methodist Church.  You
tend to believe things you were taught as a child.  I guess I don't still
believe everything they ever taught me, but that's my basic ethical basis in
choosing my course (when I have the will to adhere to it).  I work around
atheists on a regular basis even here in the heart of the Bible Belt.  I
don't try to convert them by persuasion.  I try to live an example that
other's might want to ask me about.  I don't always achieve it, but it seems
an appropriate standard to set your sites toward.
 I'm just curious what it is you as a cryonicist can't say to me the
Christian.  Is there some different doctrine of cryonics or ethical
justification for cryonics that is appropriate only for atheists?  Just
wondering.
 John

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