X-Message-Number: 16961
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 13:50:01 -0400
From: fair4us <>
Subject: Why People Won't Sign

David Pizer recently said:  "my deepest impressions of
the responses that non-cryonics persons give is that they do not tell you
their real number one reason that overrides all else, they don't want to
continue on here, they want to get to Heaven, pronto.  For some reason,
they must feel embarased or silly to state their real reasons, so they
profess all the other ones. "

That, I am sure is a primary reason for many.  But I think there is a more 
basic reason for many others that involves not only the religious beliefs, 
but other problems such as the "selfish use of life insurance money," and 
that is the MASS BELIEF prevalent in our culture which demands things such 
as "everyone's time must come," "you can't cheat the grim reaper," and the 
societal pressure of not going against the norm by trying to do something 
more elite than your relatives and friends and what they believe in, or of 
all things trying to defeat "the will of God."  Most people are social to 
the point of not wanting to alienate those around them by going against 
what is commonly accepted, even in those cases where they might otherwise 
be inclined to sign up for cryonics as a small chance of future survival.


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