X-Message-Number: 14555 Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 08:41:16 -0500 From: "www.IGGY.net - KC Homes" <> Subject: why interest in cryonics? References: <> Jeff Davis >I wouldn't want to offend anyone or jump to any conclusions, but judging >from their posts Dani, Iggy, and Marta seem to be pleasant, thoughtful >people. When new people appear from beyond the veil of Maya, I'm always >wonder how they came to discover cryonics, and why, unlike so many others, >they stopped to think about it long enough to become engaged. Also, I >confess, I just like to hear people's stories. So what's a nice girl/guy >like you doing in a place like this? Jeff: I am not engaged with any cryonics organization at this point. I have been intrigued by the idea for quite a short period of time (about 2 years now) and am studying the issue from a multitude of angles. I guess, it all takes time, progressing towards an idea and really confronting yourself sometimes. At the end, this is more important then buying a car or a house - I sell residential real estate in Kansas City area :-) Being a very logical, technological and scientific oriented person, I was born and raised in Russia as a military brat. My upbringing never encompassed religion, but rather was under somewhat a "communistic materialism" as I would put it. There is not too much communism left in me (maybe some idealistic thoughts) and probably never had been (as I was kicked out of Komsomol - Soviet Young Communist League for not paying my dues at the University - taking my then girlfriend, now my wife, for a milk shake or sundae was more appealing to me :-), but the idea of a physical world that is so awesome and explainable stuck with me. I have to give a credit to the Soviet system of education that was great as far as installing a solid strive for knowledge in me. I was 15 when I graduated highschool and 21 when I got my Masters in German and English from a Minsk Linguistic University. I am now very intrigued by rather a widespread American beliefs in God and living in Kansas ( :-), treatment of evolution in schools. Science seems not to be at the forefront of the society in this country and sometimes I am amazed that this society progressed so well with these ideas, but again there's gotta be a belief in something, right? This said, I got more interested in the idea of cryonics when my then 4 year old son asked me "What happens after you die?" and I could not give him a reasonable explanation besides "That's probably it." He was down for some time after that, but then I asked him about a "second chance" of life and he seemed to be very happy about it. That was a beginning of looking for a reasonable solution which eventually led to cryonics. I literally, spent hours and hours devouring all the information on the Net that I could find and the more I read the more I liked the idea. My wife of 11 years was somewhat skeptical about the idea, but later as we got some more insights she began to take a liking to it. Now my 6 year old son and almost 8 year old daughter ask questions about the procedure and are rather comfortable about it. We get a kick out of them talking to other kids in the class who bring up religion and Anton and Christina tell them about cryonics - other kids eyes almost pop out when this happens. I don't know what kind of conversation are these kids having with their parents after school, but so far noone confronted us about "muddying up the water" :-) neither at school nor the parents. And if they do, it's going to be a very interesting conversation for sure. Why interest? After all, what else is out there? The idea of cryonics, in my opinion, is so refreshing (besides being refreshingly cool :-) and so logical, that I fail to see why many more people don't give it a consideration. It is so sad to have blinds on! Even if there were a higher power, I doubt that God would like you to go to waste (literally) for the sake of serving him for the eternity! Not fair, not logical - there is so much out there that can be accomplished for the betterment of your family and others. These philosophical insights are always on my mind, thus the interest. Of course, I realize that this is such a different look at life, Universe and the rest of the people surrounding us that many people are just afraid to confront it. Sooner or later (I'd prefer later :-) we will all face it - who is going to be prepared better? I don't know. I guess I have 50/50 chance of succeeding, same way as any other deeply religious person. I realize that there is a rather vague treatment of cryonics by religion and maybe I am wrong opposing these two issues here, but this is the way I see it. So far, I like the odds. Beats the heck out of "Powerball." :-) And by the way, evolution is a beautiful, simple, yet complex, and wonderful thing, Superintendent of Shawnee Mission school district and Kansas Legislature! :-) Cheers and look forward to reading CryoNet every morning as always! Sincerely, IGGY Dybal Your KANSAS CITY Real Estate Net-PRO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DOROTHY WAS RIGHT... 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