X-Message-Number: 13774
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 11:46:24
From: "Henry R. Hirsch" <>
Subject: Why the Immortals Will Want to Reanimate Us - Maybe

David Pizer's discussion of the failure to get reanimated (message 13767)
is, unfortunately, quite reasonable. One sentence summary: Once lifespan is
expanded to an indefinite length, why should the immortals bother to
reanimate us, the frozen? What's in it for them?

The main value in old cryonicists, as I see it, is that we would form a
living link to history. If you had a chance to talk to someone from
colonial times, wouldn't you be driven by curiosity to do so? If I am
fortunate enough to be reanimated in a century or two, I will occupy myself
lecturing and publishing my personal recollections of the 20'th century.
People may be interested in my reactions as a child and, later, as a
physicist to the introduction of nuclear energy. If money is still used, I
may even be able to collect royalties on my publications and sell tickets
to my talks.

So take heart! Like old soldiers, old cryonicists never die and, unlike the
late General Douglas MacArthur, they don't even fade away.


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Henry R. Hirsch                      
Department of Physiology                   Phone: (859)323-5438
MS508 Chandler Medical Center              Fax:   (859)323-1070
University of Kentucky                     E-Mail: 
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