X-Message-Number: 6195
From: John de Rivaz <>
Newsgroups: bc.politics,sci.cryonics
Subject: Limiting the freedom of harmless minority interests
Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 13:16:16 +0100
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British Columbia is unique in the world as being the only country 
specifically and by force of law to prohibit anyone seeking to sell cryonic 
suspension services. As no one is allowed to provide these services, it 
follows that no resident of BC may buy them. 

Anyone seeking to buy cryonic services in the USA and have a funeral 
director ship the body so to be treated to the USA puts the funeral 
director in a difficult legal postion. In addition, many cryonics providers 
consider it necessary to have a team standing by to suspend seriously 
ill patients as soon as legal death is pronounced. Such teams would be 
unable to enter BC without comitting an offence. At best their equipment 
could be confiscated, at worst they could be thrown into jail.

Bearing in mind that anyone wanting cryonic suspension has to pay out of 
their own funds and is not making any demands of the state, do the readers 
of bc.politics consider this law to be a just law? 

Do any of you see a risk that the anti-cryonics law can be repeated with 
limitations on the freedoms of other minority groups, whether linked by a 
common interest or nationality or race or religion? Even if you aren't 
remotely interested in cryonics, have you an interest that doesn't harm 
anyone but which politicians out to make a name for themselves may want to 
ban or tax?

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