Why is the Coroner pursuing this course of action against Alcor?
We wish we knew for sure. Our best guess is that it is a mixture of ignorance, misunderstanding, and fear. Yes, fear. We know from published interviews that carrying out a cryonic suspension under optimum circumstances as we did in the case of Mrs. Kent made some of the deputies very uncomfortable (this is an understatement). Deputy Coroner Rick Bogan has stated on numerous occasions that he felt cryonics needed to regulated and it was apparent to us from the start that no one in the Coroner’s office seemed to understand what cryonics was about — let alone care in the slightest about the well-being of the patient’s in suspension. Patients are just debris, just pieces of meat to be buried or burned. If the Coroner thought even remotely that cryonics might work they would no more want to autopsy Dora Kent than they would want to go into an ICU and autopsy a patient struggling for life with a bullet in his brain. No doubt another part of the problem is political. The press conference on
