X-Message-Number: 19037 From: Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 04:45:54 EDT Subject: Believers in Cryonics... Just a quick thought, I have to post here, as most won't understand my upset... I'm active in science fiction fandom... two days ago I lost a good friend named Bruce Pelz, who had been active in SF fandom for 5 decades- and easily had the means to be cryopreserved, but chose not to be. Tomorrow I'm going to visit Forrest J. Ackerman(the #1 SF fan in the world), at Kaiser Hospital in Los Angeles... he's in intensive care, not expected to recover... and as far as I know, has chosen not to be cryopreserved. And he's unable to communicate, I think he's had a stroke. What is it that these visionary people chose to NOT to take that leap into possibility? That's what I think it is, just a possibility... These people know SF and Fantasy and hard science, and are conversant with progress in science and I think truly believed that these miracles of science would come to pass... I just don't understand it, that at the end, they should choose to NOT expand their horizon of possibility, after living lives full of wonder. Mike Donahue Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=19037