X-Message-Number: 14045 Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 05:50:36 -0700 From: Kennita Watson <> Subject: Re: signing up for cryonics References: <> wrote: > > Greetings, I've been following this list on and off for a few years. I've > seen and read enough (http://www.merkle.com/cryo/) to convince me that > cryogenics is a gamble worth taking... Glad to hear it! > I intend to sign up with either Alcor or > CI in a few years when I'm 30. I felt afraid for you when I read this. You are more likely to die in a car crash in the next few years than you will be after that. And wouldn't you feel dumb if you had just enough time before you died to think "Damn; I wasn't supposed to die till _next_ year!". I signed up for cryonics about as soon as I found out I could, partly because I recognized one phenomenon that seems to know no age limitation: the sinking feeling of "Omigosh -- I could have been killed!". Even if I'm wrong 999,999 times out of a million, I'm not willing to risk virtual immortality on that millionth time if I can help it. As any statistician can tell you, that one in a million chance can come up the first time you roll the dice (I wish I could remember the source where I found out that for many people killed in automobile accidents, it was their first one). Don't delay -- sign up today! The life you save may be your own! Kennita -- Kennita Watson | I vote Libertarian. | Find out why. http://i.am/kennita | http://www.lp.org/intro Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=14045