X-Message-Number: 19418 Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 08:55:28 -0400 From: Thomas Donaldson <> Subject: CryoNet #19413 - #19417 Hi again! To David Stodolsky: If you spoke to a Union composed of "yuppies", then they probably were not a representative set of people. Your comments are interesting, nonetheless. As for representative, I note that they all tended to be liberal and young. No truckdrivers with tattoos. The trouble with trying to convince someone who DOESN'T want to live for a long time is that at a minimum it will take a long time to convince them ... long enough that they may never live long enough to be convinced. Given that a significant number of people already say that they are interested, it's THOSE people who should be approached. That's what I think. Even if they are liberal yuppies, if they want immortality they should get it! And as for Ted Williams: I am not a baseball fan and never have been, but today the news in Australia (where some people do play baseball, even though the main sport is cricket), concerned the death of Ted Williams. However the family feud about "cryogenics" was never mentioned. (It wasn't the only news item, but it was a news item. There was another one, a bit more prominent, about a British destroyer that ran onto a reef off an Australian island, and some other things too). If his son succeeds in suspending him, they might even report that. If I were his son, the easiest legal path might be to just suspend his head, as Alcor allows but CI does not. Then he could tell others that he wanted to preserve the brain of one of the best baseball hitters in history, for future examination. Is the argument basically over, now, or could any real cryonicist contact the son about what to do? Best wishes and long long life, Thomas Donaldson Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=19418