X-Message-Number: 20261 Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 16:56:43 -0500 From: Ken Wolfe <> Subject: Re: the future of death References: <> > Message #20256 > From: "Mark Plus" <> > Subject: "The future of death" > Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2002 13:47:40 -0700 > > [This article doesn't mention cryonics, and its assertion about the relative > proportions of the living to the dead doesn't sound right to me. -- MP] > > http://www.btexact.com/ideas/futurology?doc=21053 Saying that less than six billion people have died is almost certainly wrong. See Population Reference Bureau article at: http://www.prb.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Other_articles/July-September_20001/How_Many_People_Have_Lived_On_Earth_.htm It suggests something more like 100 billion. It also suggests how this meme of more people being alive today than ever died in history may have started. -- Ken Wolfe Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada http://www.mts.net/~kenwolfe/ Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=20261