X-Message-Number: 8909
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 1997 10:44:59 -0500 (EST)
From: Charles Platt <>
Subject: Leary

> 	I saw the movie "Timothy Leary's Dead" here at Cornell about a month
> ago and must say that it truly blew my mind. In my freshman writing
> seminar on the 60's we spoke briefly of Leary, and what I did learn of
> Leary piqued my interest just enough to make me watch the movie. The movie
> was a biography of Leary beginning with his days at Harvard and ending
> shortly after his clinical death. The movie itself was fantastic, but I
> was in no way prepared for the ending. At the end of the movie Leary is
> pronounced dead, his head is removed and placed on ice, and finally his
> head is shown inside some sort of containment apparatus. I don't know how
> realistic this biographical documentary is, but I wouldn't be surprised if
> Leary chose cryonic suspension as his final head trip. 

Leary was not frozen; the sequence in the movie is a fake, perpetuating a
lie. For a description of events leading up to Leary's death, go to the
CryoCare web page at www.cryocare.org, check back issues of our newsletter
that are maintained at that site, and check issue number 8. You may also
search back numbers of CryoNet (via Keith Lynch's home page; I don't have
the URL here but you can get it by searching for "cryonet" on AltaVista)
for messages with "Leary" in the subject line, which will give you other
people's views on the event. 

--Charles Platt

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