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 Message-ID: <> 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? -- Sincerely, **************************************** * Publisher of Longevity Report * John de Rivaz * Fractal Report * * details on request * **************************************** In the information age, sharing can increase world wealth enormously, because giving information does not decrease your information. http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JohndeR Fast loading, very few slow pictures Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=6195