Re: Ted Williams wanted body frozen

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Fri Jul 26 2002 - 13:03:47 MDT


> http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=topnews&StoryID=1253495
>
> The note, co-signed by Williams, his son John Henry
> and daughter Claudia, dated November 2, 2000, reads,
> "JHW, Claudia and Dad all agree to be
> put into Bio-Stasis after we die. This is what we
> want, to be able to be together in the future, even if
> it is only a chance."

"Our father was not a religious man. The faith that many people place in
God, we place in science and other human endeavors."

I nominate John and Claudia's statement for Post of the Month. It may
not have been sent to the Extropians mailing list, but we shouldn't let
that stop us.

-- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence


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