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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Henry R. Hirsch Department of Physiology Phone: (859)323-5438 MS508 Chandler Medical Center Fax: (859)323-1070 University of Kentucky E-Mail: Lexington, KY 40536-0298 USA Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=13774