X-Message-Number: 15803
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 16:54:01 -0500 (EST)
From: Ruthanna R Gordon <>
Subject: Re: CryoNet #15795 - #15798

<On Sun, 4 Mar 2001 Blackshark wrote>

> I'm very interested in the discussions of how to have money available after
> re-animation (assuming we still need it... and I'm fairly sure we will). I'm
> a computer support person right now.  I do wonder if, after re-animation
> (100 years?), I will be so far behind in technology knowledge that I will be
> of no use to anyone in the workforce. Perhaps if I have money invested with
> my favourite cryonics organization I will be able to continue to live in
> retirement for many more years to come? So many questions.
> 
> David King (keeping an open mind)

Welcome, David, to both the list and cryonics in general.  I have always
assumed that I would be far behind in my field (cognitive psychology) when
I came back.  But I was far behind in it before college and I expect that
I will solve the problem the same way the second time around.  Once one
has immortality, the time it takes to get an education (or two or
three) seems like a reasonable investment.  Of course, having some money
set aside to take a tour of Mars or some such first would be nice.  I've
noticed, when I talk to people who are not in the cryonics movement, that
many seem unable to imagine what they might do to fill even an extra
hundred years.  Most people here, by contrast, seem to have several
hundred or thousand years worth of activities on their 'to do' list.  I
count myself among these and consider it a much healthier way of
approaching a life of any length.

Freedom and Long Life,
Ruthanna Gordon					  
*If God hadn't meant people to have wings, S/He wouldn't have made them*
                              *want to fly.*

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