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Bioethicist Dr. Jonathan Moreno debates with Alcor member Dr. Max More. July 9, 2002

Dr. Jonathan Moreno is an ethics commentator for ABCNews.com and is a frequent guest on news and information programs, including ABC World News Tonight, The CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, NPR's All Things Considered and Science Friday, Marketplace, MSNBC News, CNN Crossfire, and The McLaughlin Group. He is often quoted in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, The Baltimore Sun, Newsday, Time, The New Yorker, and other national publications.

Dr. Moreno is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies and serves on the Institute's Board on Health Sciences Policy. He is a member of the IOM committee on prison research and the Academies' committee on biodefense analysis and countermeasures. He was co-chair of the Committee on Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research. Moreno is also a member of the Council on Accreditation of the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs, and a past president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. He is a bioethics advisor for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a Faculty Affiliate of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University, and a Fellow of the Hastings Center and the New York Academy of Medicine.
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by Andres, on June 18 2008:
It's his money, if he wants to spend it on a slim chance at a new life, he can. The argument that the money could be better spent buying baseball bats for new children is ridiculous. That's like saying the money for resuscitating a teacher would be better spent on buying pencils for school children, because they're the "next" generation and the teacher's time is "gone". I don't buy into these pro-death arguments, if there is a chance she can live and she wants to, it would be wrong not to.

Rotting and cremation do not give a person a chance to benefit from emerging and accelerating technology, such as molecular biology. Even if the chances is slim, there is a chance. And that's better than zero chance.
by Damianpoirier, on June 18 2008:
I agree Andres, The pro-Death meme is very pervasive. I conducted an impomtu study for a while, casually asking people if they'd like to live healthy youthfull lives forever. And 19/20 replied in a prodeath manner. So regarding cryonic suspension it's little wonder that this gets even less respect than say Audrey and the SENS corp. It's difficult for me not to envy the frog and it's talent for total metabolic suspension.
Any news on the artificial hibrenation front? I recall some intreguing work with hydrogen cyanide.


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