X-Message-Number: 7795 From: Brian Wowk <> Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 00:02:51 -0600 (CST) Subject: Cryonics and Religion While I believe that cryonics needs to develop ways of dealing with religion (instead of ignoring it like we do now), depicting cryonics as in *competition* with religion is a mistake. Cryonics must be sold as a product that is compatible with religion, not as a hedge against it. To put this in perspective, imagine a doctor trying to convince a dying patient to try a painful and expensive experimental treatment. The doctors says, "You really should try this new round of chemotherapy because your belief in life-after-death might be wrong! In fact, there are very good reasons to believe that your religion is wrong...." *************************************************************************** Brian Wowk CryoCare Foundation 1-800-TOP-CARE President Human Cryopreservation Services http://www.cryocare.org/cryocare/ Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=7795