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From: "Yuriy Pichugin"
Subject: Re: #22829
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 17:49:22 +0000
Dear comrade Andre Borisov,
Unfortunately a liquid nitrogen storage of human bodies in Russia is not
allowed by Russian laws and so the Institute of Biomedical Technologies (a
Russian cryonics service provider, Moscow) intends to send frozen (-76oC)
patients to the USA (the Cryonics Institute).
Best wishes
Comrade Yuri Pichugin
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From: RANDY WICKER
Subject: Russia and cryonics
Regarding Russia and cryonics, I happened to attend a NYC Transhumanist meeting last night. Seems that the transhumanists discovered there were rather large groups existing in Russia that shared their perspective.
I guess you could call it a "positive residue of communism" insofar as Russia's institutionalized disbelief in traditional religion laid the foundation for rational acceptance of science being accepted as the only rational hope for immortality.
Those who have posted here regarding the possibility of creating a "church" or a "religion" based on cryonics might find a new book by Brian Alexander, "Rapture:How Biotech Became The New Religion", to be interesting.
