X-Message-Number: 7388
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 10:32:52 +0100
From: John de Rivaz <>
Subject: Re: French law against cryopreservation

In article: <> 
 writes:
> Re # 7359
> France is very socialist and defends (rather : estimates that it defends)
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> energically the rights of each man since the revolution of 1789.  For
> example, its only policy now and in the future is to tax more and more
> the rich to assist more and more the poor. And with the increasing lack
> of work, this will become worse. 

> And for the two propositions of the first line, it has taken laws against
> the human suspension exactly in 1966, that is to say at the appearance of
> the French translation of Mr Robert ETTINGER's book "The Prospect of
> Immortality".

> Both the date and the precise dispositions of the law demonstrate that 
> without any doubt that it has been made deliberately to make a
> human cryogenization in France impossible.

> There is no reason to search what happened in 1940.

Oh, but you have eloquently explained exacly why such an investigation may 
well work. In the 1940s *national* socialism was prevalent in Europe, and 
Nazi sympathisers existined in all countries not just Germany. There is 
really very little difference between National and ordinary Socialism, except 
that the National variety is deprecated and discredited. If it were possible 
to show that the legislators against life preservation were also Nazi 
sympathisers, which they could be if old enough, then their work can be 
discredited by association.

One wonders whether those who legislated agaist cryonics will also legislate 
against expensive medical procedures to aid the elderly? Will France enact a 
law saying that no one over retiring age can buy medical help other than pain 
releivers?

Governments are composed of individuals, both legislators and enforcers. 
Those concerned with the French cryonic law need to be confronted with the 
directions in which it points - at the end of this long road there are the 
Nazi extermination camps for the sick and disabled.

Maybe at least it would be worthwhile to find out the names of the 
legislators who drafted and proposed this act in the French legislature.

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