[ExI] The Dogs of Immortality

spike spike66 at att.net
Sat Jul 12 00:59:10 UTC 2008


 
> On Behalf Of Damien Broderick
> Subject: [ExI] The Dogs of Immortality
> 
> This line of argument might rise up to bite cryonics and 
> perhaps other attempts at indefinite life extension:
> 
> ===============
> 
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/09/opinion/09madoff.html?th&emc=th>
> 
> 
> Dog Eat Your Taxes?
> 
> By RAY D. MADOFF
> Published: July 9, 2008
> 
> THE latest news from the Palace, that Leona Helmsley left 
> instructions that her charitable bequest of as much as $8 
> billion be used for the care and welfare of dogs...


When I read this I wondered about the reaction of the more than a billion
followers of that old time religion guy (whose name I cannot recall at the
moment.)  They consider dogs to be unclean, and hate America.  Now we have
an American billionaire who perished and left the money to the unclean
beasts.

spike








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