X-Message-Number: 11928
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 14:01:31 -0700
From: Richard Gillmann <>
Subject: Re: Promoting cryonics using books

At 05:00 AM 6/6/99 -0400, John de Rivaz wrote:
>I wonder if it is a good idea to promote cryonics to someone by giving them 
>a series of books, and I put the idea up for discussion. Anyone tried it? 
>Has it worked? What books are best?
>...
>As starters, books like
>The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan
>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0345409469/longevitybooksA/
>...

An excellent idea!  Thanks to your suggestion, I've started reading
the Sagan book.

Here's my suggestion for another volume to add to the list:

The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684832402

Published in 1974, Prof. Becker won the Pulitzer Prize for this book.
He shows how the terror of death leads to denial on a vast basis.
While he doesn't cover cryonics itself, he does show how people fool
themselves into thinking they don't have to worry about their own deaths.
A fantastic book - one of the best I've read in recent years.

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Richard Gillmann                    http://www.nwlink.com/~rxg
Issaquah, WA (USA)                  
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