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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

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