X-Message-Number: 8934
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 10:56:57 +0100
From: John de Rivaz <>
Subject: Re: Dead Cows

In article: <>  
writes:
> Not that cryonics is any worse than the alternatives, just the 
> thought of it is highly unfamiliar.  We think of eating a juicy 
> steak, not of ingesting a 'piece of a dead cow'.  For most people 
> cryonics is still a 'piece of a dead cow' rather than a tunnel to 
> an exciting and fascinating future.

An unfortunate analogy, given that eating dead animals seems to be a highly 
dangerous thing for cryonicists to do.

Will nanotechnology be able to unravel a brain infested with rogue prions? 

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