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CryoNet - Sat 15 Aug 2009

    #31871: FOUR singularity films? [Mark Plus]
    #31872: No Suspension by Plastination in Germany [robomoon]
    #31873: Aug. 29th & 30th TX Cryonicist First Responder Training [Shannon]
    #31875: Maisie Crow video [Mathew Sullivan]

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Message #31871
From: Mark Plus <[email protected]>
Subject: FOUR singularity films?
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:36:04 -0700

http://singularityhub.com/2009/08/13/four-singularity-movies-the-world-wants-the-future/

Four Singularity Movies - The World Wants the Future
Written by Aaron Saenz |

    "Will we survive our technology?” - The Singularity Film, 2009

With four films coming out less than a year apart, it's a pretty cool time to be interested in the future and the growth of intelligence. That's right, four movies on the Singularity! In a year's span. It's kind of nuts: Transcendent Man debuted earlier this year, The Singularity Film and The Singularity is Near will both premier before year's end, and We Are The Singularity is still in production. All four movies have the same general topic and largely similar casts of characters, but each views the future through a different lens. Not very comforting for those curious about the potentially greatest change humanity may ever face. . . [Refer to the web page for the rest of the text and links to a couple of the trailers.]

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Message #31872
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:02:43 +0200 (CEST)
From: [email protected]
Subject: No Suspension by Plastination in Germany

Press article http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,614006,00.html shows rumors that Michael Jackson is getting plastination. However, this does not look like a cheap alternative to initial suspension for the client of a cryonics organization. The harvesting of tissue for plastinates works with the rights for autopsy. Autopsy prior to a burial happens in hospitals as well as in anatomy institutes. Anatomy institutes provide places where University students take their dissection lessons. There are also a few anatomy institutes producing plastinates instead of using the corpses for autopsy during educational anatomy lessons and research.

Transfer of a corpse to an anatomy institute is allowed when the deceased person made a last will about it. That testamentary disposition for a BODY DONATION is different than an agreement for an ORGAN DONATION. Surgery lessons and scientific research on the corpse in an anatomy institute waive the duty for timely destruction of all human remains. But when lessons and research have been accomplished, all the remaining tissues must be buried without notice. Manufacturers of plastinates don't have the right to waive the duty for a timely destruction of human remains.

Plastinates aren't required for a burial, because the lawyers of plastinate manufacturers can claim that these aren't human remains but anatomical samples from ANONYMIZED DONORS which have been produced due to the destruction of aforementioned remains. Maximum production time which causes the destruction of human remains is only one day after receipt of a corpse. Then the manufacturer arranges the burial of any tissue which didn't made into production.

Anonymization prior to a BODY DONATION to an anatomy institute is required. There is no control over the donation of a body for plastination. So it is fairly impossible for people to make cheap arrangements where the legal advantages of anonymization by COMPLETE DESTRUCTION of human remains can be replaced by different means to make sure that the former living owner of the brain can be identified.

Press article http://www.kirchen.ch/pressespiegel/nzz/0199.htm in German language shows that costs for the creation of a plastinate can be easily forty-thousand US Dollars. Press article http://www.zitty.de/magazin/41967/ in German language shows that public relations by manufacturers require that plastinates should be purchased only by institutes who are publicly recognized for research and education. So it is likely that institutes who perform something like cryonics are not allowed to purchase a plastinate of their client's brain for later retrieval of personal characteristics ingrown in the brain's structure.

Above essay sent to [email protected] and [email protected].



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Message #31873
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:34:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: Shannon <[email protected]>
Subject: Aug. 29th & 30th TX Cryonicist First Responder Training

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Hello,

Alcor is having the TX Readiness Team Training this August 29th and 30th, this is the training that was postponed from July 25th and 26th due to an Alcor suspension having occurred that weekend. If you are Texas area and will be able to attend please RSVP.

This training is free and open to members of any cryonics organization, or anyone with a strong interest in cryonics who would like to join the TX Area First Responder's Team..  

August 29th  2009, 10:00am to 5:00pm, lunch provided at 1:00pm

August 30th 2009, 10:00am to 3:00pm, lunch provided at 1:00pm  

TX area cryoncists can learn more about the stand-by process, what First Responders do, and how optimal suspension is aided by local community volunteers. Suspensions are helped by having area cryonicists volunteering and working together.  Any suspension is good experience to have the confidence in place to help with further suspensions.  Attending a hands-on training gives you the tools to know what to do and how to do it.  During training you will get hands on experience with standby stabilization equipment. Whether or not you are interested in volunteering for the cryonicist community this is an excellent time to learn more about the process of suspension and taking the training can help you in your own planning.

Anyone who is interested in being on the TX area readiness team as a first responder should attend, but this training is open to those that would just like to learn more about what a Readiness Team does as well.  Alcor members who complete the training and join the TX Area Readiness Team will get a 75% discount on their dues.

Aaron Drake will be running the training: http://www.alcor.org/AboutAlcor/meetalcorstaff.html

Please RSVP to TX Readiness Team Coordinator  [email protected] if you can attend all or part of the training.

The training is being held at a central TX, Austin location:  Steve Jackson Games 3735 Promontory Point DriveAustin, TX 78744

If you are planning on attending and will need a place to stay for the night, this hotel is just blocks from Steve Jackson's business, has great reviews and is economical: http://www.super8.com/Super8/control/Booking/property_info?propertyId=14545


If you are in the Texas area I hope you can attend the training, please let me know--since the first training was postponed due to an Alcor suspension--this new date may allow more Texas area members to attend. 

Thank you,
Shannon Vyff  Alcor Area Readiness Team Coordinator, Venturist Director, ImmInst Chair and Methuselah Foundation 300 member, An author of The Scientific Conquest of Death: http://www.amazon.com/Scientific-Conquest-Death-Immortality-Institute/dp/9875611352, Author of the children's book 21st Century Kids: http://www.amazon.com/21st-Century-Kids-Middle_english-Shannon/dp/1886057001
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Message #31875
From: Mathew Sullivan <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 02:38:06 -0400
Subject: Maisie Crow video

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