In a message dated 1/3/00 12:11:16 PM Central Standard Time,
randysmith101@hotmail.com writes:
> It seems to me that since the right to commit suicide would greatly enhance
> the success of cryonics, and that would therefore forward
> Extropian/transhumanist goals, that you would mention some form of a right
> to suicide on your goals statement above. But you didn't. Can you please
> tell us why?
The list I rattled off this morning wasn't meant to be exhaustive. The
principle of self-ownsership certainly implies to me the right of a sane
person to choose the time and manner of her own death.
Greg Burch <GBurch1@aol.com>----<gburch@lockeliddell.com>
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question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species."
-- Desmond Morris
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