X-Message-Number: 930
From: Kevin Q. Brown
Subject: Cryonics FAQ Needed 
Date: 26 Jun 1992

Subject: Cryonics FAQ Needed

Message #0000 lists several files of interest to people who are new
to cryonics but it does not have any single file of Frequently Asked
Questions (FAQ).  Such a file would be useful not only for new members
of the cryonics mailing list but also, provided the vote succeeds,
particularly useful for a new USENET sci.cryonics news group.  The FAQ
may be useful text to distribute among your favorite local BBSs, too.

Pieces of a FAQ now are available on-line in several places:

  (1) message #50 - Death of Death in Cryonics
  (2) message #157 - Introduction to Cryonics
  (3) message #398 - Cryonics and Overpopulation
  (4) some of the Objections & Replies in message #0012 (48K bytes)
  (5) some of the sci.med objections and replies in messages
      #0006 (400K bytes) and #0011 (>500K bytes)

Message #157, in particular, covers many of the topics needed for a FAQ.

The extensive Question & Answer section in Alcor's publication
"Cryonics : Reaching For Tomorrow" is a real gold-mine and the
pamphlet "Cryonics and Christianity" has useful material, too.
(Permission from Alcor and/or the authors for using that material
will, of course, be needed.)

The list of cryonics organizations and publications (message #0004)
is not listed above because it is, I think, long enough that it
requires a file separate from the FAQ.  Also, a cryonics bibliography
would be useful to have on-line.

I am not going to write the FAQ myself, although I would be happy
to help a few other people with the task.  Are there any volunteers?
Here is an opportunity for you to help raise the cryonics-consciousness
of the electronic community and thereby become an internationally
acknowledged cryonics FAQ-czar!
                              Kevin Q. Brown
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