X-Message-Number: 6539
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 10:00:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Platt <>
Subject: Japanese publicity

Belatedly but just for the record I agree with Steve Bridge that it makes 
little sense for an American cryonics organization to promote itself in 
Japanese media. I fail to see how CryoCare could possibly provide good 
service to Japanese members, either on a planned-standby or emergency 
basis, even if Japanese law would permit it. For this reason, like Steve, 
I declined to be interviewed for Japanese TV, probably causing a certain 
amount of offense in the process. (The polite Japanese TV person was 
INCREDULOUS that I didn't think it was important to be interviewed.)

It does seem to me that there is probably potential interest in cryonics 
in Japan. The Japanese science-fiction magazine Hayakawa SF reprinted an 
article that I wrote about cryonics for an American magazine, and 
illustrated it with little cartoon line drawings, one of them showing my 
head being dunked in liquid nitrogen. When I visited Japan in December 
last year I found that the science-fiction fraternity was quite willing 
to take cryonics seriously. But as has been pointed out, the legal and 
logistical problems are daunting.

=============================== Charles Platt ==============================
                    vice-president / CryoCare Foundation
1-800-TOP-CARE        http://www.cryocare.org/cryocare        1-800-867-2273
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