drethelin comments on How long will Alcor be around? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: drethelin 20 April 2014 09:23:48PM 0 points [-]

I think the problem would be justifying the expense. Since catholics believe in a supernatural bodily resurrection, they would still respect the preserved but feel no need to maintain them in a chilled state.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 20 April 2014 11:51:06PM 1 point [-]

It would depend on how they interpreted the obligation to not kill.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 21 April 2014 03:58:57AM 2 points [-]

Well, a number of recent fights between "rational atheists"/secularists and the Catholic church have been based on the atheists and secularists complaining that the Catholic church's interpretation of the obligation not to kill was too strong.