Ettinger wrote MIS in 1982. I read through it years ago but it never impressed me for reasons I didnt have time to examine. I'm reading it now and I see where he went wrong. It's puerile, sophmoric and stupid. I'm making margin notes and will summarize here soon but for now, I'll say that Ch. 4 turned my stomach. It's partly my fault since I had just finished an early happy hour snack, sardines on crackers. I could not finish Ch. 4. I'm tempted to stop reading the stupid book altogether. Ettinger turns out to a human-hater and madman, in 1972. He DID get cryonics correct, as far as that goes, in 1962 with Prospect for Immortality. Somewhere over the 10 intervening years, he went berserk. By the time I phoned him in 1978, about his 1962 book, he had zero social skills, was as unfriendly as one can think of an author being and possibly already half insane. Later he abandoned Michigan where his CI was stationed and spent years, secretly, in Arizona, near where I live. At the end of his "first life cycle" as cryonicists call natural lifespan, his cryopreservation is hidden behind a veil of "personal privacy". I suspect that he took himself out while sitting in a tub of cold water to maximize his preservation quality. I watch the big time cryopreservations as carefully as I can on media and his was a blackout, mediawise. I'll have to give myself a few days before continuing Ch. 4 so I don't barf up my sardines.