X-Message-Number: 8925
From: Keith Lynch <>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 02:27:16 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: Leary

In cryomsg #8909 Charles Platt <> replied to cryomsg #8903
from Josh Glasstetter <> with:

> 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.

More specifically, the article can be found at
http://www.cryocare.org/ccrpt8.html#LEARY

> 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.

My home page is http://www.clark.net/pub/kfl/.
My complete Cryonet archives (over 9000 messages) are at
http://www.clark.net/pub/kfl/les/cryonet/.  To see all
114 Cryonet messages that mention Leary from 1988 until
September of last year (four months after his death), see
http://www.clark.net/pub/kfl/les/cryonet/kLeary,Timothy.html.
(Yes, there's a comma in that URL.  No, it doesn't end with a
period -- the sentence does.)

I've been to the facility where he would have been stored had he
been cryopreserved.  It doesn't look anything like Hollywood would
portray (even though it's less than a hundred miles from Hollywood).
Patients are stored in steel dewars set into concrete silos in the
floor of a grubby industrial bay, near some dog kennels.  All that's
visible is what looks like a couple of oversized manhole covers in
a concrete floor.  The building itself has no signs identifying the
company, or what goes on there.  Nor can it be found by looking up
cryonics in any phone book.

This is much more likely to discourage morbid curiosity seekers,
and fools who think Leary's frozen body might contain LSD crystals,
than if he were stored above ground in a glass cylinder in a well-
publicized high-tech facility like Evil Businessmen and Mad Scientists
always have in the movies, with impressive looking security systems
that always end up being circumvented.

I don't think we should mislead anyone into thinking that
Timothy Leary (or Walt Disney) was cryopreserved, as Peter Merel
<> implies we should in cryomsg #8910.  When
someone loses their reputation for total honesty, it takes longer to
restore it than it will to restore cryonics patients to perfect health.
-- 
Keith Lynch, 
http://www.clark.net/pub/kfl/
I boycott all spammers.

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