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/

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