X-Message-Number: 17807
From: "George Smith" <>
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Subject: Congratulations!
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 11:29:11 -0700

Joseph Strout,

CONGRATULATIONS!

By taking action and completing the enrollment process for cryonics for
yourself and your wife, you have crossed a line which divides two groups on
this planet with the razor edge of an implacable guillotine - those who
actually commit to physical life and those who don't.

The psychological impact of this is now working its way through your
conscious awareness.  The medical alert jewelry you wear is a physical
reminder of your membership in a unique and sadly, still small club in a
world filled with fools.

People throughout the world celebrate their birthday in honor of the fact
that they "entered the world" on that special day.  As the years and
centuries open before you, you may very well come to look back at the day
you completed your cryonics enrollment as you TRUE "birth" day - the day you
committed to life as a conscious and personal choice.

In the meantime, as we all pass through this last of the dark ages of
deathism and mortality, if something should happen to your wife, you will
NOT sit in a funeral setting wondering IF you could have done something to
actually save her life.  You have now done what can be done on a personal
level to bypass that kind of painful future event.  You will know that there
is hope to see her alive and well again.

From your wife's perspective this act on your part could easily be perceived
as a commitment which goes beyond the vows of mortal marriage ("until death
do us part") as you have made a serious and unmistakable effort to help your
wife survive beyond even death.  This is a commitment to life of heroic
measure and you both deserve to feel deep pride in this decision and action.

Also from your wife's perspective and any others who truly care about YOU,
you have assuaged THEIR potential grief.  Should you be struck down by
illness or accident, you will not have condemned THEM to sit in abject grief
at a funeral service.  Your wife and those who care for YOU will know that
there is a serious probability that you are not truly "dead" for you will
rise again when a future medical capability to reverse what today we call
"death" is commonplace.

The psychological benefits of choosing life unending and rejecting by an act
of will the despair of the last deathist culture on earth will grow within
you.

My congratulation on your courage, intelligence and determination.

May we meet again in the forever which is eternity.

Best wishes,

George Smith
CI member

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