X-Message-Number: 15205 Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 15:17:40 -0500 From: James Swayze <> Subject: Promoting cryonics References: <> Hello all, Just had some thoughts about cryonics promotion and general attitudes towards...caps used in lieu of italics. Recently I had occasion to need surgery and though it wasn't possible to have anything like a standby in place I did still aprise my doctors of my interest in cryonics. THEY'D NEVER HEARD OF IT!! Honestly most had no idea what I was talking about. Now I'm considering the posts here about how we are percieved and promotion and it occured to me the people we most need to appeal to are doctors. Try as they might to defeat death currently EVERY patient EVERY doctor has DIES! This is appalling but they keep practicing and practicing never getting it right. In this case practice does not make perfect. My thought is doctors should be THE people MOST interested in a way to BUY SOME TIME until they can get enough practice to actually have their patients not die. I know this has occured to all of us but isn't it time to really confront the medical establishment about this? Why couldn't a sophisticated and professionally done promotional video be put together that both promoted the idea of suspending patients to BUY SOME TIME that seriously displayed in easy to understand format the concepts of vitrification (the suspending part) and stem cell research and other advances (the cures that are coming for the suspended) with serious emphasis on the progress made and expected? Surely the march of technology is not lost on doctors or the way so often science fiction (insert science speculation) becomes science fact. I feel if such a video could be presented to doctors some would understand it and get the bug. This would grow in time as they began to promote the concept amonst themselves. I hate to admit this but it is human nature, I mean that doctors might also be more inclined to promote it if they saw some direct profit in it for themselves beyond just being able to actually save their patients from death. I don't have the foggiest idea how to include them but I feel it should be thought about and tossed around here. You know the adage, "money talks, bullshit walks". James -- Some of our views are spacious some are merely space--RUSH Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=15205