There is a cryonics promoter named Aschwin de Wolf, who is connected with Alcor, is listed as living over in Phoenix Az, and is "a consultant for a number of cryonics organizations". So he makes good money promoting cryonics.
Maybe someone closely connected with the Phoenix cryonics groups, can fill us in...
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POSTSCRIPT NEWSFLASH:
QUOTE: "Alcor is proud to announce the marriage of research associate Chana Williford to Aschwin de Wolf. Chana and Aschwin were married the evening of April 7th, 2007, in Phoenix, Arizona. David Pizer, a minister of the Society for Venturism, officiated."
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So Alcor's employees, spend their lives promoting cryonics, and get married by another Alcor employee David Pizer, who is a minister in the Church of Venturism. Well, at least the terrible bias and distortion in their information makes perfect sense.
Aschwin de Wolf has a bizarre blog entry below, where he is proposing all sorts of strange things, and as well, promoting setting up those bogus "trusts" that are being sold by his cryonics friends and business partners.
There is incredible intellectual dishonesty in his blog, albeit done in a pseudo-intellectual way.
Notice below how Aschwin de Wolf in very calm language APPEARS to be promoting which could be called at best assisted suicide for the terminally ill? Is he? What is he saying?
Note also that he does not even admit that legally dead people are dead!
His paragraph about cryonics being long term critical care medicine is FALSE. Its an outright fraud. The people are legally DEAD.
If they are not dead, then that is assisted suicide, or worse. If anyone did cryonics or ANYTHING like that, on someone who is not legally dead, that would be assisted suicide, or murder.
Notice how he says its about "employing metabolic arrest"? What is this guy talking about?
Is he telling his friends, like Mark Plus, that its ok to "employ metabolic arrest" in humans?
His blog is just full of unbelievable twistings of illogic, even talking about a "scientific" tipping point, when in fact, they aren't doing any relevant science. Its amazing they are able to fool anyone with this stuff, even though their numbers so far are only in the hundreds, as most people see through this gibberish in seconds. But he is able to bamboozle quite a few people on various blogs with his style of writing.
Aschwin de Wolf and Chana de Wolf are nothing less than pseudo-intellectual salespeople of the cryonics business.
Notice also that these guys are all obsessed with SELLING CRYONICS. That is basically all they talk about.
He talks about "presenting" cryonics as medicine, and not freezing "dead" people. That is their deceptive sales strategy in a nutshell. If you look at what they are saying, they are saying that legally dead people, are not actually dead. Do they really believe that, or it is just a sales tactic?
There is a bizarre aspect to cryonics people where they constantly can't seem to understand why people don't want to do it. This is because most people see that its a fraud, and a scam. They see right through it. But the cryonics people do incredible mental gymnastics to try and get around this basic fact that people see cryonics as a scam, and that science and scientists reject it as extreme quackery.
but notice Aschwin de Wolf's sales strategy...
- target desperate critically ill people.
- present cryonics as medicine. (its is NOT medicine, the patient is dead).
- community building (this is the cultish aspect of bringing people in emotionally)
- financial instruments (this is the bogus method to turn your assets over to his associates companies)
- assisting families with decisions (this is giving them the power of attorney)
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One solution to the “death” issue is to present cryonics as a form of long term critical care medicine. Instead of presenting cryonics as the science of freezing “dead” people in the hope of future revival, cryonics can be presented as a branch of medicine that employs metabolic arrest to allow critically ill patients to reach a time when effective treatment is available to treat their disease. Presenting cryonics as a form of critical care medicine does not only stress the fact that human cryopreservation is a logical extension of conventional medicine, it should also minimize religious objections concerning “raising the dead,” “immortality,” and “playing God.” Just like mainstream religion has embraced modern medicine, so it can embrace cryonics as a novel but logical extension of it.
We know that terminally ill people are often willing to go to great lengths, and accept considerable uncertainty of outcome (even risks), to find a cure for their disease or to extend their life. In this sense, the lack of complete certainty of resuscitation of cryonics patients should not present a formidable obstacle to the acceptance of human cryopreservation. Perhaps the more fundamental difference between conventional medicine and cryonics is the duration of care. ...
There is no magic bullet to “selling” cryonics, but presenting cryonics as a form of medicine, encouraging community building, facilitating legal instruments to retain financial assets during long term care, and assisting families in making cryonics decisions may lessen the psychological barrier to choose cryonics.
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