Re: [HOE] Re: was Doomsayers - now Harrowed

["doyle erin west" <westfam@the-i.net>]

couldn't you sign a release that said if you died and came back, you were
willing to join the cyborg program?  or was that later on?  i'm not terribly
certain.
----- Original Message -----
From: "richard a ranallo" <toadpooka@juno.com>
To: <hoe@gamerz.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2001 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: [HOE] Re: was Doomsayers - now Harrowed


> On Sat, 06 Jan 2001 11:36:23 -0700 Allan Seyberth <darious@darious.com>
> writes:
> >  They didn't have to explain - they were effective in covering it up.
> >  At  least until the Plunkett tape and the DPLF kidnapping brought
> > everything to  the front page.  At which point the harrowed thing was
> spin-doctored
> > as  part of the process for becoming a cyborg - "irreversable chemical
> > changes"  and all that.
>
> Modern embalming practices would be another thing that helps keep the
> harrowed under wraps (or 6 feet of dirt, at least).  A properly embalmed
> body by today's standards couldn't come back harrowed.  So not many
> peoples' dead relatives dig their way up out of the cemetary.
> People who come back would either have to do so between the time that
> they died and when their body would be embalmed, which only gives them a
> few days under normal circumstances, while it normally takes a harrowed
> body a week or more to rise again. Either that, or the body would have to
> not be embalmed at all.  A murder victim who is buried in a shallow,
> unmarked grave near the railroad tracks could come back a week later.
> This would have a lot of effects on the "harrowed demographics," as it
> were.  There would be far fewer harrowed in the US or CSA than in many
> Third World countries.  Certain religious beliefs that don't allow
> screwing with the bodies of the deceased would give rise to more harrowed
> from that heritage.  And more harrowed would come from "suspect" causes
> of death: a hitchhiker goes missing for a month, and comes back claiming
> to have been killed and risen from the dead.  Obviously, this is a result
> of post-traumatic stress syndrome stemming from the abuses laid upon him
> by his kidnapper.  If he protests and runs to someone to mention his lack
> of a heartbeat, the agency has just found another volunteer for the
> cyborg program.
>
> From Whom It May Concern,
> Rich A. Ranallo
>
> "A man who has blown all his options can't afford the luxury of changing
> his ways.  He has to capitalize on whatever he has left, and he can't
> afford to admit--no matter how often he's reminded of it--that every day
> of his life takes him farther down a blind alley."
> -Hunter S. Thompson, "Hell's Angels"
>
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