<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">I believe the Universal Immortalism (<A href="http://www.universalimmortalism.org">http://www.universalimmortalism.org</A>) folks and at least one other group that slips my mind are exploring this angle. <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- samantha</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On May 9, 2005, at 2:27 AM, Brett Paatsch wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">Another thought Samantha,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">If your religion specifically favoured or encouraged cryonics</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">then it is possible (even likely that) civil liberties organisations</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">would go </FONT><FONT face="Arial" size="2">into bat for you in defence of freedom of religion, in </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">the event that local or state laws turned against you because</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">cryonics fell out of favour with the locals for some reason. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">They would not have to agree that your decision to sign up for</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">cryonics rational sense to be willing to uphold your right to </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">make </FONT><FONT face="Arial" size="2">that decision for yourself especially if you made it on</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">religious grounds. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">With a hub religion set up, cryonicists could convert to your</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">religion at some stage in the future, as a form of additional</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">insurance. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">Brett Paatsch</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">extropy-chat mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo/extropy-chat">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo/extropy-chat</A></DIV> <BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>