X-Message-Number: 1759
Date: 17 Feb 93 03:31:24 EST
From: STEPHEN BRIDGE <>
Subject: CRYONICS mothers

February 16, 1993
>From Steve Bridge, Alcor
 
Reply   to   Charles  Platt's message #1750   about   cryonicists   loving
their mothers.
 
Recently  at  Alcor, seven men (5 employees, 1 Member, and  1  "likely-to-
sign-up")  were discussing what we had in common that might  point  toward
cryonics  interest.  One element was that all seven were the oldest  child
or  only child in their family.  The "likely-to-join" metioned that he had
noticed that almost everyone he asked in active positions in cutting  edge
organizations  were also eldest or only.  There is a lot of   sociological
evidence  that  the oldest child in the family is most often a  leader  in
many   ways.   Also,  an only child or oldest child would have  spent  the
most time  alone with  a mother, which might result in more closeness  (on
the  average)  in adulthood.
 
The  question of birth order might be an interesting addition to the  next
cryonics   poll,   although the field is too large to create  a  marketing
focus (how do you  send  direct mail  to  or  focus  advertising on all of
the  eldest  children  in  the country?).
 
Steve

Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=1759