X-Message-Number: 22627
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 12:24:58 +0200
Subject: Re: The Great White Lodge of Cryonics
From: David Stodolsky <>

On Wednesday, October 1, 2003, at 05:41  PM, Scott Badger wrote:

> From: David Stodolsky
> <>
>
> "This may be true if it is a way of life that is being
>
> offered. If it is cryonic suspension, then the best
> time is in middle age, when people are coming to terms
> with their mortality."
>
> Actually, the survey I conducted a few years ago
> indicated just the opposite (WTA's Journal of
> Evolution and Technology, Dec 1998). I think the
> middle-aged are too involved in their lives to really
> think that much about their deaths. The most
> interested were the younger and the older populations.

Maybe, but the fact that people first come to terms with mortality in 
middle age is well documented. I don't have the ref handy, probably 
Kastenmeir's (sp?) book would be the place to look.

There could be a big difference between 'thinking a lot' and coming to 
a conclusion. Particularly, with mortality questions, which tend to be 
repressed.


dss



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