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

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