Samanthas religion was Re: [extropy-chat] Creating Transhumanity

[Samantha Atkins]

I believe the Universal Immortalism (http:// 
www.universalimmortalism.org) folks and at least one other group that  
slips my mind are exploring this angle.

- samantha

On May 9, 2005, at 2:27 AM, Brett Paatsch wrote:

> Another thought Samantha,
>
> If your religion specifically favoured or encouraged cryonics
> then it is possible (even likely that) civil liberties organisations
> would go into bat for you in defence of freedom of religion, in
> the event that local or state laws turned against you because
> cryonics fell out of favour with the locals for some reason.
>
> They would not have to agree that your decision to sign up for
> cryonics rational sense to be willing to uphold your right to
> make that decision for yourself especially if you made it on
> religious grounds.
>
> With a hub religion set up, cryonicists could convert to your
> religion at some stage in the future, as a form of additional
> insurance.
>
> Brett Paatsch
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